Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and  Rose-

Artist- Francesco De Zurbaran (1598-1664)

Title- Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose
Date- 1633
Medium- Oil on canvas
Dimensions- height:60 cm, width:107 cm



 

• Francesco Zurbaran was a Spanish painter, known for his religious paintings of saints and biblical subjects
• This image was constructed as a homage to the virgin Mary
• Traditional associations of the indvidual objects encourage symbolic meaning
• The cup is a symbol of purity, the rose is one of her floral attributes, the oranges stand for virginity/fertility and the lemons are emblems of faith
• The well ordered appearance of the objects are symbolic to the offering at an altar



Gummy Worms Artist- Margaret Morrison
Title- Gummy Worms
Date- 2007
Medium- Oil on Canvas
Dimensions- height:24 cm width:24 cm

•   Margaret Morrison is known for her surreal subjects and still life images
• Margaret's latest collection of paintings including this one 'Gummy Worms' is described as 'larger than life'
• The subjects of her still life paintings are nostalgic, using recognisable images and symbolism to recapture our childhood memories
• The use of bright colours and its unique nature draws us into it, as is it compelling and very interesting
• This artwork is described as 'outside mainstream' as it is not a stereotypical kind of art work



 Artist: Margaret Morrison
* Name: Chocolates
* Date: 2008
* Material: Oil on Canvas
* Size: 28 in x 58 in
* Location: Woodward Gallery


* Based on the indulgences of life.
* Her paintings now reflect her life and what she hes been through
* She was a professor, influenced most of her art before her diagnosis
* Subjective frame used to highlight her idea of what makes her comfortable and happy.




Artist: Pieter Claesz

* Name: Breakfast Piece
* Date: 1646

* Material: Oil on Panel
* Size: 23.6 in x 33.1 in.
* Location: Pushkin Museum.

 

* Uses a monochrome colour pallet ( greys, brown, blacks)
* Main idea was to capture the lighting across the objects
* Each object is set to have its own meaning
* Has a religion view on it, almost like the last supper
* Subjective and Structual frames.

Comparison of Juan Sanchez Cotan and Giorgio Morandi

Artwork: Natura Morta
Artist: Giorgio Morandi
Date: 1956
Size: 30.3 x 36.4cm.
Materials: oil on canvas
Located now: unknown private collectionles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes

• Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are Famous for their tonal delicacy in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.
• Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna (1890-1964).
• Giorgio studied and trained at Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna where he found inspiration from Cezanne
• In 1915, he joined the army but suffered a breakdown and was indefinitely discharged.
• The tones that Morandi uses in his Still lives are very dull, gloomy and cold colours. The painting has its placement straight in the centre of everything, drawing our attention to the objects in the middle.

Artwork: Quince, cabbage, melon and cucumberArtist: Juan Sanchez CotanDate: 1602
Size: 69x85cmMaterials: using oil on canvas.
Located now: at the San Diego Museum of art.

• Juan Sanchez Cotan was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain.
• Juan Sanchez Cotan was born in June 1560 and died in September 8 1627 (aged 67).
• Typically, his greatest paintings were spare, gloriously illusionistic arrangements of fruit and vegetables some of which hang from a fine string at different levels while others sit on a ledge or window.
• In August 1603 he closed his workshop in Toledo to renounce the world and enter a Roman Catholic religious order.
• Quince, cabbage, melon and cucumber by Juan Sanchez Cotan, is a still life artwork which uses everyday objects, fruits and vegetable such as a melon, cut open to reveal its pale pink flesh, a cucumber, a yellow apple, a cabbage with thick leaves.

Comparison of Vincent van Gogh and Francisco de Zurbaran



Title- The Vase with 12 Sunflowers
Artist- Vincent van Gogh

Date- 1888
Medium- Oil on canvas
Location- National Gallery London, London, United Kingdom
Dimensions- 91 × 72 cm (35.8 × 28.3 in)



• Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who painted some of the most powerful images ever created.
• The artist felt an intense connection with his surroundings, and he was able to visually capture the movements and energies of nature. By emphasizing the elements of line and color, van Gogh transformed the scenes he saw around him into masterpieces.
• He famously wrote to his brother Theo: "I want to do paintings which touch some people."
• Since Vincent Van Gogh was not a successful artist until after his death so he did not receive much recognition for his work during the time they were created. It wasn’t until after his death where he was seen as one for the world greatest post- impressionism artist.
• The colour of sunflowers was particularly important for the Van Gogh, who developed a personal colour symbolism in which yellow suggested happiness and optimism. In this painting the yellow- dominated palette is intensified by the contrasting blue outline of the vase.

Title- Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose
Artist- Francisco de Zurbaran
Date- 1633
Medium- Oil on Canvas
Location- Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, USA
Dimensions- Height: 60 cm (23.6 in), Width: 107 cm (42.1 in)

• Zurbarán devoted himself to an artistic expression of religion and faith. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting saints, monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still life’s.
• Religious people, the church and the wealthy took a greater interest in Francisco de Zurbaran work because of his use of rich colour and tone and his historical and religious depictions of people, animals, saints and objects in the Catholic faith.
• The symbolic reading in “Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose” where the citrons are a paschal fruit and signify faithfulness; the basket of oranges represents virginity; orange blossoms, fertility; water, purity; and the rose is a symbol of divine love. The image has been construed as a tribute to the Virgin Mary. Additionally, I believe that the structural division of the composition into three separate parts might suggest to the Trinity.
• The placement of the items works well for the painting as they contrast each other, working together to create and harmonious piece.
• I believe that this is a successful artwork because of the rich and passive colours and the way the composition is geometrically perfect. The objects clarity and realistic aspects truly makes this painting and amazing piece of art.

Comparision of: Still life with Skull, Jan Gossaert and Violin and Candlestick, Georges Braque



Georges Braque
Violin and Candlestick, 1910
Oil painted on canvas, 61x50cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA



• This artwork reflects the theme of 'Cubism'
• The artwork is based on a grid framework and the painter covered the boundaries of the black outlined objects using earth toned colours
• The effect of Cubism transforms the dimension of the art work making it look three dimensions
• Cubism allows the audience to see the objects from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the painting in greater context
• The shattering look gives the audience a complexity of emotions

Jan Gossaert
Carondelet Diptych (outside), 1517
Still Life with Skull
Oil on wood, 43x27cm
Louvre, Paris

• This artwork projects the theme of Vanitas or Momento Mori, meaning remember your mortality
• The skull in the painting reflects the idea of death and is a typical symbol and reminder of death
• Painted on the reverse left side of the Carondelet Diptych, a diptych is a painting on two hinged wooden panels that are closed like a book
• The script above the skull is written in Latin that translates to "he who thinks always of death can easily scorn all things"
• The word MATURA is chiseled into the bottom of the artwork, the word mature comes from the work MATURA, this suggests the full physical development.

Comparison of Giorgio Morandi and Jude Rae



Giorgio Morandi , Natura Morta, Oil on canvas, 1929




Jude Rae, Oil on Linen Australian contemporary artist












The still life paintings by contemporary Australian artist, Jude Rae, show a clear influence of Italian Modern artist Giorgio Morandi. Both artists create compositions based on common everyday objects such as bottles, boxes, jars, jugs and in Rae's case fire extinguishers. Both artists reflect an intensity of observation and a distinctive use of light in and both artists have depersonalied the objects by removing their labels.