Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables
Arcimboldo was a late renaissance painter who made portraits from fruits vegetables and flowers. His work has insopired many otehr artists such as [I'll find out]
http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ has a good gallery of paintings
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Arcimboldos-Feast-for-the-Eyes.html tells you more about the artists and why he painted these portraits.
http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ has a good gallery of paintings
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Arcimboldos-Feast-for-the-Eyes.html tells you more about the artists and why he painted these portraits.
Still Life Paintings
During the baroque period of Art (C17th-18th), still life paintign were popular. However, they weren't seen as simple paintings of fruit or flowers but complex symbolic representations of life and death. This was called "Vanitas". Sometimes death was shown very conceretely, through the inclusion of a skull in the composition; other paintings showed insects, decaying fruit or wilting flowers. Fruit or flowers might indicate the pleasures of life, or the sin of giving into these pleasures, or the speed with which such pleasures decay. The viewer gets a mixed message because the sensuousness of the painting contradicts its meaning. Hargrove courses [http://hargrovecourses.com/docs/painting/stilllifes.pdf] has a brilliant powerpoint illustrating the motifs and compositions common to Vanitas paintings and givign suggestions for hwo to create a vanitas paintign of your own.
Some artists who painted in this style include:
Hans Holbein [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)] who added a skull (which can only be clearlty seen if you stand at the side of the painting) to a portrait of important leaders
Osias Beert [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/osias-beert/still-life-1]
Jaques Linard [http://www.pinterest.com/jeanpaoletti/jacques-linard/]
Pieter Claesz [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/overview/pieter-claesz]
Maria van Oosterwijk [http://www.mariavanoosterwijck.nl/works.htm]
Modern artists who incorporate this style include:
Alain Khadem [http://www.artisanart.us/vanitas.html]
Charles Allan Gilbert [http://darkclassics.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/charles-allan-gilbert-all-is-vanity.html] who drew a portrait of an actress at her mirror which appears, from a distance, aas a skull
Damien Hirst [http://www.damienhirst.com/texts/20071/jan--rudi-fuchs] who created a diamond-studded skull(!)
Alexander de Cadenet [http://www.guyhepner.com/artists/#!ART50/alexander-de-cadenet-/COL200/skull-portraits] who works with x-rays
Some artists who painted in this style include:
Hans Holbein [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)] who added a skull (which can only be clearlty seen if you stand at the side of the painting) to a portrait of important leaders
Osias Beert [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/osias-beert/still-life-1]
Jaques Linard [http://www.pinterest.com/jeanpaoletti/jacques-linard/]
Pieter Claesz [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/overview/pieter-claesz]
Maria van Oosterwijk [http://www.mariavanoosterwijck.nl/works.htm]
Modern artists who incorporate this style include:
Alain Khadem [http://www.artisanart.us/vanitas.html]
Charles Allan Gilbert [http://darkclassics.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/charles-allan-gilbert-all-is-vanity.html] who drew a portrait of an actress at her mirror which appears, from a distance, aas a skull
Damien Hirst [http://www.damienhirst.com/texts/20071/jan--rudi-fuchs] who created a diamond-studded skull(!)
Alexander de Cadenet [http://www.guyhepner.com/artists/#!ART50/alexander-de-cadenet-/COL200/skull-portraits] who works with x-rays
Abstracted botanicals
Ellsworth Kelly [http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2012/ellsworth-kelly]
Ellsworth Kelly [http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2012/ellsworth-kelly]
Random books from the library that do interesting things with vegetation
House of Ellwand: Faireality NF 746.9 BIR is a fashion gallery for fairies with all the clothes made from flowers seeds and leaves.
A World of Food [F WAR - picture books are behidn my desk] is a picture book with pages depicting worlds made from different sorts of foods (think about the ad "If all the world were Cadbury" but with different foods).
Bradley Hammond creates mimimalist and somewhat abstract drawings of plants using pen and ink See "radley Hammond "Bradley Hammond:TRee Changes" Artist Profile Issue 25, 2013. pp 90-93.
The document below shows lots of different ways artists have approached the topic of flowers. You can download it below or read it online in the box below.
House of Ellwand: Faireality NF 746.9 BIR is a fashion gallery for fairies with all the clothes made from flowers seeds and leaves.
A World of Food [F WAR - picture books are behidn my desk] is a picture book with pages depicting worlds made from different sorts of foods (think about the ad "If all the world were Cadbury" but with different foods).
Bradley Hammond creates mimimalist and somewhat abstract drawings of plants using pen and ink See "radley Hammond "Bradley Hammond:TRee Changes" Artist Profile Issue 25, 2013. pp 90-93.
The document below shows lots of different ways artists have approached the topic of flowers. You can download it below or read it online in the box below.
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