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A Still Life Of A Vase Of Carnations To The Left Of A Basket Of Fruit by Jacob van Hulsdonck

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October 13, 2015Still Life Painting WesternNo comments

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A simple basket filled with fruits and carnations could be so attractive. That’s a fact, I wouldn’t believe on before I saw this painting. It’s like, in the art-world, you have to see and feel the painting. Otherwise, you just can’t get the real beauty of the art. The possibilities are you would be deprived from enjoying such kind of masterpiece. The painter who made it possible was Jacob van Hulsodnck. He was a still life painter, means he had the mastery to draw paintings of any still object with great details and realism. Maybe we could call still-life paintings are the part of realism form of the art. This distinguished painter was born in Antwerp, France in late 16th century. There is no further details are […]

View Of A Terrace by Vincenzo Irolli

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October 13, 2015Still Life Painting WesternNo comments

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Vincenzo Irolli was a still life painter from Italy. He was well-known for his works of genre-paintings and portraits in late 19th century. Blending things with brush-strokes and creating a feel of similarity across the painting was his novice style. The unrealistic effect of his style gave more importance and dominance to the scene. He painted most of his work in unrealistic style, though having the subjects from real-life. In this oil-on-canvas still painting, is surrealistic view of a regular terrace filled with some flower-vases. Irolli, instead of trying to make the scene more real, created a vague image of a simple terrace by making it surreal. Still, we can differentiate the terrace wall, flowers and the background, which looks like another high wall just […]