Paintings of arranged objects such as fruit, bread, flowers and kitchen vessels, a genre long prized for its study of form, color and light. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it a still life. It excludes landscapes and plant studies drawn from nature. The group follows the genre named in the cited article. Painters of still life study the shape, weight, surface and color of everyday objects, and some made the genre a testing ground for new ideas about space and form. The group follows the genre as the cited article names it, and not the school or century of the painter.
Still Life Paintings
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The Basket of Apples (Wikipedia)
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The Basket of Apples (French: Le panier de pommes) is a still-life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne, which he created c. 1893.
Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) (Wikipedia)
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Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (Wikipedia)
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It is a formal still life composition, displaying Cézanne's exploration of form, balance, and symmetry in objects.
Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) (Wikipedia)
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Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
Basket of Bread (Wikipedia)
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The painting depicts a heel of a loaf bread in a basket, sitting near the edge of a table.
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