Dutch still life

Last week was the first class of my winter term “ Still Life with Oils - Master Copy Class” , taught online through the Art League of Alexandria. This term the master copy we are focusing on is a Dutch Golden Age Still Life by Willem van Aelst “Flower Still Life with a Watch, 1663”.

Francis J. Beckwith writes that abandoning belief in real moral law is not worth the cost, especially when we lose the Law-Giver.

Texture in art is the surface quality of an artwork - the roughness or smoothness of the material from which it is made.

Workshop of: Juan van der Hamen y León, Spanish, 1596-1631 Still Life

Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, c.1610.

https://flic.kr/p/ah5Wse | Adriaen Coorte 'Still Life with Three Medlars and a Butterfly' c. 1696-1700 | Adriaen Coorte [Dutch Golden Age painter, ca.1660-1707] Adriaen Coorte’s collected works comprises more than 60 signed paintings, almost all of which are dated between 1683 and 1705. His manner of painting was highly refined, and his works small in scale. Initially Coorte painted more traditional subjects, such as vanitas still lifes, before concentrating on fruit, vegetables, nuts…

The still life has witnessed a transformative and interesting evolution from the bottom of the hierarchy of artistic genres – its subjects not...

Wilem Kalf

Still Life with a Gilt Cup, Willem Claesz. Heda, 1635 - Rijksmuseum

What happens when a flower becomes a national obsession?

Artist CoCo Zentner discusses the history around the Dutch Master Paintings, their color choice, and compositions. The types of flowers and insects used in the 17th and 18th-century artwork & how CoCo Zentner wanted to challenge herself in modernizing this concept in her watercolor paintings of

Vanitas Still Life by Dutch School, 17th Century

Botanical still life, or floral portraits created in a manner reminiscent of the Dutch Masters.

Jan Davidsz de Heem) (1606-1684)