Shintaro Ohata

I am unsure if I am allowed to make posts, but I found this great artist a while ago, and our lesson's in class reminded me of his work. His name is Shintaro Ohata, and he works with oil paintings and sculptures.

He uses many smaller shapes to make a bigger picture, even in the sculptural element of his art.

You guys should check out the rest. Here is the website: http://yukari-art.jp/en/shintaro_ohata_en

Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning / Shannen Milletary

I find the use of different materials in Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning interesting. I automatically think of a still life as being flowers, fish, something maybe symbolic like the memento mori paintings. Picasso uses paint, cloth, rope and chair caning to create this collage-newspaper-cafe kind of effect. Mostly though, I like how the viewer can relate to and recognize what he or she is seeing (something that probably isn't as common in a cubist painting). The chair caning, rope, and newspaper create this familiarity within the piece that I like.

Jan Van Kessel_allisonwesterfield

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Majority of the still life's one would find when looking online is fruit, wine, and occasionally instruments or the like. I chose this still life because it stands out from the rest with the abundance of "living" creatures in the composition. Not only does it stand out because of content, its a little corky having the kittens suspicious of the fish. The colors compliment each other with the dark shadowed background and lively red and blue fish. 

"still life with bird" by Claire Rollinson _allisonwesterfield

To me "still life with bird" bring to mind so many things at once. I enjoy that it makes the mind wander and brings it around in a circle on the composition. It is so realistic, but yet so unrealistic. The slight shape of the pear or the slight shape of the tea-pot so wonderfully blended together with all the other shapes creating an image to that specific viewer.

Photorealistic still-life by Roberto Bernardi

I found it really hard not to be fascinated with Bernardi's collection. Not only is he able to render hyper realistic paintings, but the arrangement of his subject matter as well as his choice in subject matter is really strong. I particularly liked this painting because of how messy and cluttered it felt in spite of the clean edges and colors. I also thought it was interesting that he chose to paint something as mundane as dishes in a sink because it really drives home the point (to me) that everything around us is worth making art out of.

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: "Still Life with Palette" by Roy Lichtenstein

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: "Still Life with Palette" by Roy Lichtenstein:I think this definitely is a still life but not a preferred way of rendering to me. I can appreciate the art for the style it signifies. In keeping with that it is a successful piece, just not my favorite!

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: Surrealist Still Life/ Dawn Jongko

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: Surrealist Still Life: I look at these paintings and am drawn to them because of their realistic qualities and content. The content is familiar and we know the images so well and seeing them rendered in a way it is clear and true to life, it is easily accepted. I personally think the use of value to depict light was very successful. Again detail is a preference of mine so the painting, "Basket of Bread" by Salvador Dali" is one that refer to as a great work of art!

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: Cezanne's Apples/ Dawn Jongko

UWF Painting I/Painting for Non-Majors: Cezanne's Apples: Cezanne's apples are a favorite of mine, because of the style and use of "shape, value, and color". I personally have a tendency to giving into to tight detail, Cezanne has a way of communicating just what is needed and maintains a loose feeling yet conveying a perfect amount of detail. His images in this painting draw the viewer into the familiar and everyday. It is a painting most can enjoy and connect with personally at some level.

James Rosenquist, "Orange Field", 1964

James Rosenquist, "Orange Field", 1964

I really love this painting by Rosenquist,  mostly because like many pop artist, he took something insignificant and meaningless and gave it importance. I see this as the complete opposite of the vanitas paintings of the dutch masters, in the way that those images were composed of many objects each with its own extremely heavy symbolism, all alluding to different aspects of the human condition in that time; Rosenquists painting on the other hand is composed of one object with no meaning. This meaningless object is so large that it is not even contained within the boarders of the canvas, and in this way Orange Field alludes to its own aspect of the human condition: meaninglessness, and absurdness.

Cexanne's Apples

What draws me to Cezanne's work is the loose, gestural quality of his paintings. When I searched abstract still life paintings, this is one of the paintings that popped up. I thought it was interesting that Cezanne's work can be considered abstract, just because I had never thought of it being abstract, but in a way it really is abstracted and distorted a bit. The deep warm colors of this painting really stand out on the cool gray background. This painting has a soft feeling even with the vibrant colored apples. It feels dreamlike to me as well.

Surrealist Still Life

I've decided to post still life paintings from surrealist artist because I enjoy this genre the most. The first is titled Basket of Bread painted by Salvador Dali the date is 1904. I love Dali’s work because it is incredibly realistic which I've always thought made his surrealist work more profound. The second is one by René Magritte titled Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values) painted in 1952. It is not a “traditional” still life but the painting was created to evoke thought, so I found it fitting for this post. Do you consider this a still life?

-Nathalie Carlo

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