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"Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop," Rachel Ruysch, 1716.
Rachel Ruysch's still lifes are always worth revisiting. I've talked about her before, so I won't repeat myself, except to say the basics: She was a painter of florals and still lifes who was enormously popular and charged high prices in her lifetime, and is also the best-documented female artist of her time, thanks her to habit of adding her age to her signature on all her paintings. She is regarded as one of the greatest still life artists of all time.
Here we have a lovely bouquet with roses, pansies, irises, calendula, dianthus, and others, with a few insects buzzing about or landing on the petals. Her father was a teacher of anatomy and botany, so she learned to look at flowers and insects closely and examine their structure, to recreate them realistically on the canvas.
A perfect painting for Flower Friday!
From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Our white fruit quince are flowering.
https://www.pictorem.com/2321121/White%20Pink%20Quince%20with%20Raindrops.html
Thought I'd share some vintage pink petals today, happy Friday!
Available here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/vintage-pink-petals-tina-lecour.html
Wenn die Akrobaten müde sind, übernehmen Clowns die Manege,,,
(Papaver rhoeas)
#Sternhyazinthe #Schneestolz #Schneeglanz #GloryOfTheSnow #Scilla #flowers #spring #Frühblüher #Frühling #Frühjahr #Garten #Bockshornklee #BloomScrolling
"Rum Row," Frederick Judd Waugh, 1922.
This is a fairly off-the-beaten-track painting for Waugh (1861-1940), who was known mostly as a marine painter. His seascapes are still admired today.
The son of portraitist Samuel Waugh, he had the best education and lives mostly abroad, painting seascapes. He returned to the US in 1908 where he went from New Jersey to Maine to Provincetown, MA. He also did illustration work for periodicals, and was hired by the Navy to design camouflage for ships.
Most interestingly, he published a number of fairy tales with American settings. He was deeply interested in folklore and the supernatural, and sought to create a New World fairy tradition for young readers.
But today we have some lovely irises in empty old rum bottles. These probably were considered trash in his day....now they're valued collectibles!
Happy Flower Friday!
Plumbago auriculata, also known as blue plumbago, or sky flower.
Some pretty spring bluebirds for Friday, have a good one!
Available here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/a-pair-of-spring-bluebirds-tina-lecour.html
A morning walk in #dusseldorf
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#spring #sakura #magnolia #FlowerFriday #flowerstodon
"Basket of Roses," Henri Biva, 1891.
Biva (1848-1929) was a Realist/Naturalist painter of landscapes and the occasional still life. His work is recognizable for a degree of realism and attention to detail that prefigures the photorealism that would rise in the late 20th century.
I once showed one of his landscapes to a friend, who gazed at it for ages, then said, "You can almost HEAR that painting," as in it was easy to imagine the calls of birds and buzzing of insects. It was as if one could step through the frame into a lovely, but realistic, scene.
His attention to detail, his skill as a colorist, and his ability to depict natural light and make it LOOK natural on the canvas, are remarkable to me. He is scandalously overlooked and deserves greater attention....a lot of his work may not look like much at a glance (views of meadows or wooded glades or the shore of a pond or creek) but reward your attention with their amazing detail and realism. Go look him up.
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
