Billy Solitario

Cocktail Jars

2019

"Shadows, 2020" is part of Kris Wenschuh's HOME series: a pandemic-era reflection of what home means to the artist.

"Where Home May Be II" is part of Kris Wenschuh's HOME series: a pandemic-era reflection of what home means to the artist.

"Day Lilies with Day Lily Painting" is a painting in the 2022 show Comfort Food: Still Life Paintings by Benjamin J. Shamback. The piece is 24 inches high and...

"Donuts on Pink" is a painting in the 2022 show Comfort Food: Still Life Paintings by Benjamin J. Shamback. The piece is 18 inches high and 12 inches wide. With the included frame, "...

"Turkey Sandwich with Apples" is a painting in the 2022 show Comfort Food: Still Life Paintings by Benjamin J. Shamback. The piece is 18 inches high and 12 inches wide. With the incl...

"Donuts and Bansai" is a painting in the 2022 show Comfort Food: Still Life Paintings by Benjamin J. Shamback. The piece is 18 inches high and 11 inches wide. With the included frame...

Still Life is a superb original oil painting on panel, realized by the Italian artist Vincenzino Volò, best-known as Vincenzino dei Fiori (Rémondans, 1620-Milan, 1671) around 1640-1660. Original Title: Natura morta di fiori entro vasi biansati (Still life of Bouquet in two-handled vases). On the back of the panel, two labels are glued "da Milano", "A Piacenza", ("from Milan" "to Piacenza"). The labels indicate a transfer of the artwork, perhaps in the first half of the twentieth century, from Piacenza to Milan. While instead the style and technique make us understand the artwork was commissioned or created in the Milan of Federico Borromeo, archbishop of Milan from1595 to 1630. The author of the painting can be identified in the person of Vincenzo Volò, a talented artist who fell into oblivion, recently rediscovered and appreciated. Founder of the Vincenzini family, he was born in Franche-Comté in 1620 (in the past its birth was erroneously fixed to 1606). In the mid-forties of the seventeenth century he arrived to Milan, and held a leading artistic role: he was the founder of a family workshop that imposed his style and strongly influenced Milanese collecting with his still lifes and influenced generations and generations of painters. Vincenzino also was the first painter of still life to work on the Bella Island for Vitaliano VI Borromeo and collaborated with well-known figure painters such as Francesco Cairo, Scaramuccia, Nuvolone and Fumagalli. As regards the style, the archaic tendency of Lombard painting of still life from the early decades of the seventeenth century is clearly evident, looking at primitivism and the happy schematization of the composition of the artwork. The dating of this artwork could be fixed around the first half of the seventeenth century because it is confirmed by the type of support, a wooden panel, always used by Vincenzino. As for the subject, Volò generally painted bouquets of flowers in two-handled vases placed on transversal planes seen from the front. It is possible to compare this work with other Dei Fiori's artworks: the pair of Flower Vases...

Still Life is a superb original oil painting on panel, realized around 1870 by the British artist Edward Ladell (1821-1886), the best known English still-life artist. The artwork r...

John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...

A painting by Hans Hofmann. "Yellow Vase" is still-life abstract painting, oil on panel executed in the primary colors by Post-War Abstract Expressionist H...

John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...

Hungary, 1936 – 2015 Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...