Jacques Enguerrand Gourgue Art

Contemporary floral painting in a vase with voluptuous flowers. Delicate color and texture. Tropical Fantasy Floral #4 - Still Life Painting - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman This mast...

This original oil on board by acclaimed American Modernist Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) presents a vibrant still life featuring zinnia flowers in shades of red and orange. Set withi...

"My works are composed of small-scale paintings, mostly still life. I prefer to paint intuitively, working directly onto the board and allow the paintings to evolve over time. From t...

Denied Warhol Flowers, (Red) Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas with Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 5 x 5" inches 2008 L...

Summer Bouquet, watercolor on paper size 24x30 framed 32x38 Joan Brady 20th Century American artist is known for her watercolors. Exhibition : Custom House Museum Key West Art...

Still life - Salvatore Marinelli Italia 2011 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x120. in this precious oil on canvas, Salvatore Marinelli is inspired by the paintings of the Neapolitan school...

Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...

Bountiful and bursting with color, this gorgeous depiction of a peony garden is representative of Diane Monet’s expert hand and eye for idyllic beauty. Peonies near Paris Diane Mone...

Laden Table Abstract Still Life With Candle Grapes. Jacqueline Crofton born in London of Russian and Romanian extraction. At 13 she gained a sch...

Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Abstract Composition Triptych in blue and red, Oil on Canvas, signed to verso, with wood supports to top and bottom edges. Overall: 20.5" H x 48...

Provenance: Selma Herringman, New York, ca. 1955-2013; thence by descent to: Private Collection, New York, 2013-2020 This seventeenth century Spanish still-life of a laden table, known as a bodegón, stands out for its dramatic lighting and for the detailed description of each object. The artist’s confident use of chiaroscuro enables the sliced-open squash in the left foreground to appear as if emerging out of the darkness and projecting towards the viewer. The light source emanates from the upper left, illuminating the array, and its strength is made apparent by the reflections on the pitcher, pot, and the fruit in the basket. Visible brush strokes accentuate the vegetables’ rough surfaces and delicate interiors. Although the painter of this striking work remains unknown, it is a characteristic example of the pioneering Spanish still-lifes of the baroque period, which brought inanimate objects alive on canvas. In our painting, the knife and the large yellow squash boldly protrude off the table. Balancing objects on the edge of a table was a clever way for still-life painters to emphasize the three-dimensionality of the objects depicted, as well a way to lend a sense of drama to an otherwise static image. The knife here teeters on the edge, appearing as if it might fall off the table and out of the painting at any moment. The shape and consistency of the squash at left is brilliantly conveyed through the light brush strokes that define the vegetable’s fleshy and feathery interior. The smaller gourds—gathered together in a pile—are shrouded partly in darkness and stand out for their rugged, bumpy exterior. The stoneware has a brassy glaze, and the earthy tones of the vessels are carefully modulated by their interaction with the light and shadow that falls across them. The artist has cleverly arranged the still-life in a V-shaped composition, with a triangular slice of cheese standing upright, serving as its pinnacle. Independent still-lifes only became an important pictorial genre in the first years of the seventeenth century. In Italy, and particularly through the revolutionary works of Caravaggio, painted objects became carriers of meaning, and their depiction and arrangement the province of serious artistic scrutiny. Caravaggio famously asserted that it was equally difficult to paint a still-life as it was to paint figures, and the elevation of this new art form would have profound consequences to the present day. In Spain Juan Sanchez Cotan...

Contemporary abstract painting by Welsh artist Peter Rossiter. Artists comments on the painting "The painting is an exploration of warm relationships between colours and choreograph...