Sunday, February 24, 2013

ART SUNDAY--STILL LIFE--SPRING--


HI ALL HOPE SPRING IS SLOWLEY COMMING TO YOUR PART OF THE WORLD HERE IS IS STILL SNOWING SO LETS TAKE A WALK AMONG THE FLOWERS OF OLD HOLLAND
Dutch artists also branched out and revived the ancient Greek still life tradition of trompe-l'œil, particularly the imitation of nature or mimesis , which they termed bedriegertje ("little deception"). In addition to these types of still life, Dutch artists identified and separately developed "kitchen and market" paintings, breakfast and food table still life, vanitas paintings, and allegorical collection paintings.When the illuminated manuscript was displaced by the printed book, the same skills were later deployed in scientific botanical illustration; the Netherlands led Europe in both botany and its depiction in art.



Dutch Still-life cake


Made In Holland by Ruadh DeLone, via Behance


Adriaen Coorte












5 comments:

Unknown said...

Lovely art

Amalie von Bergen said...

Lovely art. I bought a similar painting to your first image. Fell completely for it!

Shaynacwings said...

Absolutely beautiful art work, a pleasure to see. Thank you Heidi for sharing.

Unknown said...

Hi Heidi - What stunning paintings - these artists are truly talented. Thanks for sharing.

Unknown said...

Don't be horrible. lol
Nowhere in the World grows better asparagus than that produced in Germany.
Got to your site by accident let's hope I can repeat the trip.
Still alive and caring.