SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Still life Archives: Still life Scituate Art Association fall classes  Oct 7, 2008 Alternately, in bad weather, still life will be presented using that approach ... Designing a Painting Sunday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with Vcevy Strekalovsky, winner of last year s plein air event and a recent exhibitor at the SAA s Front Street Art Gallery, Strekalovsky enjoys painting figures, portraits, still life, wildlife and livestock in a natural setting ... Plans are to work outside, weather permitting; alternate plans are for still life work. (Scituate Mariner, MA) Arts association offers weekend of painting  Oct 3, 2008 Strekalovsky s class, Designing a Painting, will meet Sunday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Winner of last year s plein air event and a recent exhibitor at the SAA s Front Street Art Gallery, Strekalovsky enjoys painting figures, portraits, still life, and wildlife and livestock in their natural setting. His workshop will stress drawing and composition, values, edges and color temperature. (Scituate Mariner, MA) DeWitt High School Student Voice  Oct 3, 2008 Whoever heard of projects like cross contour still life, Pointillism, manikins in motions, or, my favorite, tempera batik. When youre in your first art class and hear all these different types of projects, you may find yourself thinking, What have I gotten myself into. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR) Art forms spring into life at Primavera  Sep 19, 2008 Some works, such as Moya McKenna's still life oil paintings and Ariel Hassan's large-scale abstract paintings and sculptures, come from traditional studio practice. Others incorporate digital video technology and performance elements. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment) Pick best Asian films ever  Sep 16, 2008 Still Life' ('Sanxia haoren') China (Zhang Ke Jia, 2006) Awarded a Golden Lion at Venice in 2006, Zhangke's wide-sweeping film is based on the human tragedy of the Three Gorges Dam (more than one million people have been displaced) which stretches across the Yangtze River. The story focuses on a miner who travels back to his home town looking for his wife only to find that his former home is now submerged. (CNN -- International) Book Review: Lewis Carroll by Anne ...  Sep 15, 2008 The photographs included in the book particularly focus on his formal portraits and photographs of children, although he is also well regarded for his images of English landscapes and still life portraits. The photographs include several images of Alice Liddell, both on her own and with her siblings. (Suite101.com) Sharon Sprung: Solo Exhibition  Sep 15, 2008 The exhibition displays both Sprung's figurative and still life paintings. Sprung states, "I am an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. I teach painting at The National Academy Museum School and The Art Student's League in New York City, two excellent art schools where I began my studies." Over the past thirty years Sprung has shown extensively in the US and works are parts of private collections arouns the world. (AbsoluteArts.com) Ida Grove woman's photo tops at Clay County Fair  Sep 8, 2008 She also earned an award for the best black-and-white photograph in the adult class with a still life of forks. Brueggeman's prize-winning image was of a caterpillar, also larger than life-size. (Sioux City Journal, IO) South Africa: The last preserve of 20th-century painting  Sep 8, 2008 A still life of roses and lemons so clearly resembles the work of Scottish Colorists, particularly Peploe's, that it is hard to believe that she was unaware of his paintings, which she may have seen at the hands of British administrators in the South African colonial service ... She admired van Gogh, as witness "Still Life with Pears," dated 1936, and also Gauguin's Tahitian period, as may be inferred from the portrait of an African woman ... Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier could be totally... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Ad for husband buys dream  Sep 7, 2008 The Montana Standard. The Montana Standard. (Montana Standard, MT) Feature story: Full cycle  Sep 6, 2008 An up-close focus in "Hubba-Hubba" (a play on bicycle wheel hubs) creates a silvery still life of gears and spokes. Because of her bike-centered perspective, Hill is more likely to paint feet than facades, and many of her paintings have no people at all. (Palo Alto Online, CA)  NB artists boat paintings, sculptures at Slough  Sep 6, 2008 Although the subject matter for his art ranges freely from still life dishes of fruit to seagulls perched on piles, Hitch is quick to declare his love of boats. He has featured them in assemblages, in photographs, in the water, and in dry dock. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR) Summer colors, fragrances hanging on during still time  Aug 25, 2008 This still life that exists outside of my door was unintentional, but charming. A friend of mine gave me a scattering of these flowers years ago and I stuck them near the garage where the yellow hose hangs, never thinking about their complimentary colors. (New Iberia, LA) Wild scenes at glimpse of what's on offer  Aug 22, 2008 There's still life in the market for Old Master paintings. But it wasn't still lifes that stood out at the big London sales held by Sotheby's and Christie's last month so much as narrative pictures, portraits and landscapes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business) US man guilty of possessing stolen paintings  Aug 20, 2008 They say the client also stole a still life by Paul Cezanne valued at more than $29 million, but Mardirosian returned that painting in 1999. The statute of limitations had expired to charge him with possessing the Cezanne. (International Herald Tribune) 1988: Active artists  Aug 16, 2008 Lighthouse Art Center featured the work of Gary Wong in a one-man show of his landscapes, seascapes, still life and floral watercolors. The Chinese-born artist also did architectural drawings and graphic art. (Daily Triplicate) Cheap painting to sell for thousands  Aug 15, 2008 "I like to think he was drawn to the picture because it's a still life with coral," she said. "Goodness knows how it ended up at a second-hand stall in Texas.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment) Springfield artist gets Capitol reward twice despite blindness  Aug 13, 2008 She often will assist Hayden in setting up his still life props such as purchasing fruit, photographing it on a digital camera, transferring the photograph to her computer then printing out an image that Hayden can then enlarge on his CCTV. Sometimes she'll take pictures of a subject she thinks might interest him, such as those she snapped recently of puffy clouds against a blue sky. "I try not to push him," said Murray. (The Delaware County Times, PA) Collected portraits of human endeavor, industrial forms  Aug 10, 2008 Set in a rail station tearoom, the production combines elements of both Noel Coward's play "Still Life" and the script for the film, which he took from his play. 63-65 The Haymarket, 011-44-871-230-1562. (Boston Globe) Wisdom Family Foundation funds endowed chair in art  Aug 10, 2008 In the 1970s, she began oil painting focusing on still life. In the late1970 s, she began working with watercolors, her finest and best loved medium. (Alva Review Courier, OK) Paintings add color downtown  Jul 25, 2008 I began in oils, but she liked watercolor paintings and also thought my watercolors were better than the oil still life I had completed. That was probably 35 years ago. (Rensselaer Republican, IN) PAC sells note cards for fundraiser  Jul 24, 2008 The 4 x 6 cards, which are blank inside, utilize a wide range of Lilian Fendig paintings including a still life of peonies, a local abandoned farm scene, an English tavern, a building on St. Croix, a historic Brown County house and a woodland stream. The paintings were loaned by local collectors specifically for the card series. (Rensselaer Republican, IN) In this corner, new products from George Foreman  Jul 24, 2008 But is there still life left in the George Foreman brand. Foreman, who is 59, and his business partners think so. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology) Van Gogh's Sunflowers have become monsters. But I'd rather have them than 'botanical art'  Jul 14, 2008 Like all great still life, Van Gogh's sunflowers are images of the transitoriness of beauty, as shifting as sunlight itself. Probably because they are apparently unchallenging, the Arles paintings have become art monsters. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts) Our critics go back to school  Jul 7, 2008 To begin, Jonathan Jones does some still life in Wales ... I sit down to draw a still life. (Guardian Unlimited) Reformatting the Still Life: Large-scale prints of Clay Bodvin  Jul 4, 2008 IMAGEArtist: Clay Bodvin Title: Serial Still Life I Year Created: 2006Medium: Collage Width: 500 mm Height: 500 mm Depth: 1 mm Edition Size: 6 Price: US$ 505. Related Links. (AbsoluteArts.com) Read Indepth Article  Jul 4, 2008 Reformatting the Still Life: Large-scale prints of Clay Bodvin - ARTROM - absolutearts ... "Reformatting the Still Life: Large-scale prints of Clay Bodvin" 2008-07-01 until 2008-07-10 Rome, , IT Italy ... IMAGEArtist: Clay Bodvin Title: Serial Still Life I Year Created: 2006Medium: Collage Width: 500 mm Height: 500 mm Depth: 1 mm Edition Size: 6 Price: US$ 505. (AbsoluteArts.com) Sotheby's contemporary art sale reaches £94.7 million  Jul 2, 2008 One, a remarkable still life painted by Nicolas de Sta. l in 1953 in a manner halfway between identifiable figuration and abstractionism, swiftly sold for 769,250, exceeding the upper end of the estimate by more than half. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Holland America Line's New ms Eurodam Blends Traditional Dutch Art and New Works  Jun 27, 2008 Additional contemporary artists depicting Dutch heritage are Jan van 't Hoff, who paints still life in the centuries-old tradition, and Charles Bell, whose paintings are intense with monumental dimensions depicting fruit and flowers in casual broad strokes and vibrant colors on large canvases. Also featured are Stephen Card, a British artist whose paintings richly detail past Holland America cruise ships, and Dutch painter Bas Sebus, whose work -- a blend of the real and surreal -- is in high... (PR Newswire) Christie's London Sells $284.6 Million of Art; Monet's Lilies Sets Record  Jun 26, 2008 Updated: New York, Jun 26 03:40 London, Jun 26 08:40 Tokyo, Jun 26 16:40. Monet Lilies Push London Auction to Record 144. (Bloomberg -- Latin America) Real flowers take center stage in 'Art is Blooming'  Jun 26, 2008 Last Thursday evening, more fully awake, I joined the crowd at "Art is Blooming." Floral art brings to mind classic still life, but the Taneytown folks had other ideas. Real flowers took center stage as members of the Silver Fancy Garden Club, and some guests from the Carroll and Mount Airy Clubs used organic plant and flower materials to interpret artworks. (Carroll County Times, MD) A Severini climbs to £15.04 million in a dazzling Impressionist and Modern sale  Jun 26, 2008 The Soutine was followed by an admirable but small still life by C ... The still life, dubbed in the catalogue "Deux vases de fleurs et un ?ventail," (Two Vases and a Fan) is done with an exquisite sense of colored nuances and a poetic feel for light playing on leaves that are both unusual for Gauguin. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Photographers add new dimensions to still life  Jun 25, 2008 "Staged" is a still life show ... Greig ingeniously sets up her still lifes to resemble drawings, even before she photographs them, by painting objects to give them an illusion of flatness, then outlining their edges ... Chervinsky sets his still lifes before a blackboard, cleverly filling out and accenting the objects in his photos with chalk drawings. (Boston Globe) Artist brushes away tardiness  Jun 25, 2008 Jacqueline George was highly commended for Bubbleboy, a still life of her dog wrapped in bubblewrap, which has attracted controversy. "He is protected but also confined modern society also offers protection and security, but with the loss of self-expression and basic freedoms," she said. (The Age) A Monet sets record at £40.92 million in Christie's sale  Jun 25, 2008 A remarkable flower still life painted in 1913 by Leo Gestel thus became the Dutch master's most expensive work sold at auction as it climbed to 505,250. Here too the influence of Futurism can be recognized, transformed by a palette borrowed from French Fauvism, with its luminous reds, blues and greens. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) America has chosen its 40 greatest paintings. Does Britain have the guts to do the same?  Jun 23, 2008 Without our senses challenged by a glimpse of a Titian, a Frida Kahlo or an Andy Warhol, we tended to produce bland stabs at still life or portraiture, our only idea of what a painting might be. So I was excited to learn of the campaign that John Updike has been leading, with great success, in the US. As a result of Updike's efforts, every school there will shortly receive 20 double-sided posters. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts) Star turn puts pizzazz into Kensington sale  Jun 21, 2008 Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. (Sydney Morning Herald) Letter: Richard Chopping  Jun 19, 2008 He never spoke of his illustration work at the time, such as the covers for Ian Fleming's books, despite the fact that we were practising plant drawing and still life with fish, shells, flowers and grasses, the subjects of his own illustrations. One other title, which should not be forgotten, is Heads, Bodies and Legs, made by Richard with Denis Wirth-Miller (Penguin, 1946). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts) Art.view: Time for reflection  Jun 15, 2008 Of the two Goncharova paintings on offer in their sale, Still Life of Peaches and Red Flowers , one of her first still-lifes in oil, began with a single offer of 1m. No further bids were made. (The Economist) Critics' picks - visual arts  Jun 15, 2008 Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe) North River Arts Society summer classes  Jun 15, 2008 There will be a slide show about color theory and information on how to set up a still life ... Participants will work primarily in oil from a still life. (Marshfield Mariner, MA) Sunday happenings  Jun 14, 2008 An exhibit of mixed media art depicting landscapes, still life and abstract subjects featuring Maggie Karl is on display through Aug. 31 in the South Slough auditorium. Karl is a former Coos Art Museum director and a 15-year Southwestern Oregon Community College art instructor. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR) Thomson fifth-grader's award brings $1,500 to school  Jun 14, 2008 An oil painting still life of fruit deliberately uses opposing colors, another one of her own ideas. A colored pencil self portrait done last fall expertly captures her look. (North Andover Citizen, MA) Christie's $22 Million Russian Art Auction Misses Low Estimate in London  Jun 12, 2008 Still Life of Peaches and Red Flowers'' (1910) sold for 1. 16 million pounds on a low estimate of 1 million pounds. (Bloomberg -- UK) Paintings by Larry Forte are a lesson in form  Jun 12, 2008 Your Connection to the. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Athens Banner-Herald) Goncharova Helps Sotheby's Russia Total Reach $42 Million in Mixed Auction  Jun 10, 2008 The top lot was Russian avant-garde painter Goncharova's ``Nature Morte aux Fruits (``Still Life, Fruit'') (1912-13), sold from a French collection ... Goncharova's ``Still Life of Peaches and Red Flowers'' (1910) sold last night to Ukrainian collector Alexander Adamovsky for 1. (Bloomberg -- UK) Stitches and strokes  Jun 9, 2008 She submitted only painted items for the exhibit, including Christmas tree ornaments, a paper mache box painted for Halloween, a wooden plate with a goose, apples and candle still life, a modern rose mauling design on a wooden plate and several other small items. JoAnn Hunter, The Journey Museum store manager and coordinator of the exhibit, said the quilts and decorative paintings are coordinated and arranged by the four seasons of the year. (Rapid City Journal, SD) When viewing art, less can be more  Jun 7, 2008 - could be a still life by Johannes Torrentius. A metallic flagon, a wine glass of perfect roundness and an earthenware jug - stunning grace (and, if you read the accompanying explanation, a message about measure's triumph over excess). (International Herald Tribune -- Technology) From China to Bourne: BHS grad crosses cultural divide  Jun 7, 2008 He avoided using color in art class, concentrating on the abstract and still life with teacher Ken Carson. He came to appreciate watercolors in Chris Mason s advanced placement studio art instruction. (Upper Cape Codder, MA) Klaus Perls; donated Picassos to N.Y. museum  Jun 6, 2008 Two were from 1910, Picasso's "Nude in an Armchair" and Braque's oval "Candlestick and Playing Cards on a Table," and the third was Picasso's "Still Life With Pipes" from 1912. In a marked departure from the practice of many donors, Mr. Perls placed no restrictions on how the works be exhibited. (Boston Globe) Art at a higher level ... Man may get death penalty ... Grand jury charges man with murder ... Henderson outlines plans for tax revenue ... Cast your vote for \'Best Business\' ... New name for alternative school ... Parish hires map checking firm ... 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Delcambre was excited about having her work chosen. (New Iberia, LA) Vote for your favorite artworks  Jun 6, 2008 Dinsmore, an Omaha-born realist painter known for his landscapes and still life paintings of flowers, worked as an artist in New York before returning to Lincoln, Neb. His painting, "The Horse Whisperer," was featured in the 1998 Robert Redford film of that title. (Sioux City Journal, IO) Painted faces  Jun 5, 2008 The artist who paints a landscape or still life is not addressing a closed circle of people; there is nothing private about such a painting. By contrast, there may be an assumption that the portrait of a named person is not addressed to us; we feel almost as if we are intruding. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)  South Slough exhibit features Maggie Karl  Jun 3, 2008 An exhibit of mixed media art by Maggie Karl depicting landscapes, still life and abstract subjects will open at the auditorium of South Slough National Estuarine Reserve from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 7 ... -Contributed Art An exhibit of mixed media art depicting landscapes, still life and abstract subjects will open at the auditorium of South Slough National Estuarine Reserve from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR) VSA exhibit makes a statement: No limits on creativity  Jun 2, 2008 Still lifes, landscapes, seascapes, abstracts, clay works and other scenes brighten VSA's studio space before going to the gallery for hanging ... And the level of realism she's reached with her still life makes her feel proud. (The Clarion-Ledger) Art.view: Egg and lemon  Jun 1, 2008 Another picture likely to attract the interest is Bowl, Eggs and Lemons (pictured above), a still life from 1950, the start of Scott's most productive decade ... In November 2006, Christie's sold a 1956 blue still life for 590,000 ... A year later the same buyer was back, snapping up another blue still life, this time for 457,000. (The Economist) Oliver Sacks and 'The Mind's Eye'  Jun 1, 2008 More often, the world seems to him like a still life painting. His condition and story remind us of what a gift a healthy body is. (USA Today -- Tech) The Neuroscience of Illusion  May 29, 2008 Long before scientists were studying the properties of neurons, artists had devised a series of techniques to trick the brain into thinking that a flat canvas was three-dimensional, or that a series of brushstrokes was actually a still life. Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between the physical reality and the of an object or event. (Scientific American) Francisco Oller y Cestero, La Batalla de Trevino to be on Public View for the First Time Ever  May 26, 2008 He is best known for his still life and landscape paintings. His most famous work, El Velorio (The Wake), 1893, which was shown at the Paris Salon in 1895, is an icon of Puerto Rican art and a symbol of the Islands nascent sense of identity at the turn of the last century. (AbsoluteArts.com) A brush with Picasso  May 24, 2008 Philippe Saunier, who has been co-ordinating the loan of the works from the Musee National Picasso in Paris, says: "We are sending you many wonderful works. There is the portrait of a Spanish dancer and the self-portrait by Miro. We will also lend you a famous painting by Matisse, Still Life with Oranges, done in 1912. "And there is one of his portraits that Picasso loved most Marguerite. There are also African masks, and we have some works done by Picasso to show the links between his own work... (Courier Mail) Artists produce 'outrageous' work for AOTW  May 24, 2008 Her idea was to sketch the lines of a still life in nine panels, then have three different artists paint the panels ... Strickland insisted upon more information and was told "it's a still life." Other than that, Kelly said, she had no idea what the artists would come up with ... The result was better than anyone in on the plan dreamed, and features elements of a still life, bluegrass musicians, flowers, bicycles, watermelons and even Santa Claus. (Andalusia Star News, AL) Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen  May 22, 2008 Charles V. Bond (Still Life: Fruit, Bird, and Dwarf Pear Tree). Mary Cassatt (The Boating Party). (Suite101.com) Drawings win gold  May 17, 2008 Hallelujah won Terry one of two regional Gold Keys this winter with the second key for Laid to Rest, a still life drawing of a duck decoy. Laid to Rest also won an American Visions Award, part of the Scholastic Art Awards, which is given to the top five Gold Key winners in the art competition. (Auburn Citizen, NY) New owner, new name for gallery in Hopewell  May 17, 2008 Although the floral still life is the main focus of Strazzella's paintings, she brings them into the context of everyday living by showing bits and pieces of the environment in which they are placed. In "ANEMONES, Japanese," the flowers are displayed in a sienna and brown clay pot on a woven mat. (NJ.com -- Times) Hilary Tolan: "Remainder"  May 15, 2008 May 15-31 Like many still life artists before her, Tolan meditates on mortality. Using cut flowers and fake ones, some gorgeously but unnervingly coated in wax, her installation and photos note time's passage and chides us for trying to stop it. (Boston Globe) At home: 1920 lighthouse illuminates Oscar Blandi's style  May 15, 2008 Another oil, a still life of fruit and decanted wine, is by Gaetano Boccheti, an Italian artist of the last century who also sketched the large study of a young man hanging in the foyer. Both were gifts from Blandi's dad, Alfredo Blandi, a hairdresser in Naples. (USA Today -- Life) Watch Tips on Oil Painting  May 13, 2008 It that doesn t work I make a still life. Step 2 - Sketch Composition: Once I know what I want to paint, I sketch it on my canvas. (Rensselaer Republican, IN) Beauty and the Bairs: Museum a study in luxury  May 11, 2008 On another is a replica of a still life of apples by Henry Sharp, a well-known artist and a family friend. Daddy s Room is an arresting statement of hot pink and emerald green it apparently didn t look like this when Daddy was alive. (Helena Independent Record, MT) Americans Are Heaviest Bidders on Impressionist and Modern Art at ...  May 9, 2008 Perhaps the biggest bidding war of the evening was for s Geranium, a rare 1910 still life in a rich palette of greens that was expected to fetch $2. 5 million to $3. (New York Times) Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales  May 8, 2008 It all began with four still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, rather small and understated in their pale color scheme as is usual with the Italian painter ... Yet when came the first great work in the session, "The Geranium," a still life painted by Matisse in 1910, two competitors bidding anonymously through staff members seemed unable to quell their desire and sent the masterpiece climbing to $9. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Moving pictures  May 6, 2008 Lodi's Brodie Jayne's Photography finds the still life in newer, simpler location. By News-Sentinel Staff Writer Updated: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 6:43 AM PDT. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA) Seattle artist puts modern twist on still life painting  May 4, 2008 Faigin, a contemporary realist, grounds his still life work in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch painting, yet wishes to express modern sensibilities as well. As you see in this exhibition, I ve made the personal choice to use the Dutch still life as a point of departure for my own studio work, Faigin said in a press release. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)  Eye in the sky  May 3, 2008 Subtitled The Uneasy Still Lives of Gary Faigin, the exhibit uses the tradition of 17th-century Dutch still life painting as a point of departure for works with a distinctly modern sensibility, with serene objects disintegrating into chaos. In Breakthrough, the right side of the painting features a table setting above an ocean cliff, but edges are missing from a pitcher on the table, which seems to have exploded, with dozens of little pieces blowing away in the wind on the left side. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR) El Greco to Velzquez  May 2, 2008 Juan Snchez Cotn's still life with quince, cabbage, melon, and cucumber, about 1600. (San Diego Museum of Art, courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) The visionary painting of an agonised soul  Apr 23, 2008 "We wanted to show with this retrospective, which allows the visitor to discover landscapes, portraits and still lifes from all phases of Soutine's life, that he was not such a solitary artist as normally thought," said curator Nina Zimmer. "There were points of contact [in his work] with many of his artist colleagues, even those in Paris. Soutine was not so different from Chagall, Modigliani or Maurice Utrillo."The exhibition also highlights parallels with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso," she... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland) El Greco to Velzquez: An Overview  Apr 22, 2008 Still Life Painting and the Duke of Lerma's Camarin ... Many were exceptional in the art of still life painting, some influenced in part by the graphically realistic works of Italian renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) ... The finely chiseled facial features of the aged matron, contrasted with those of a young man, reveal a sense of naturalism not seen in Spanish painting until the age of King Philip III. The vivid genre compositions of Vel;zquez incorporated elements of still... (Suite101.com) 'El Greco to Velazquez' uses masters to frame unsung artists  Apr 20, 2008 The exhibit ends quietly, with still lifes and tavern paintings ... Still lifes came into vogue around 1600 ... His striking "Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber" (1600) looks almost 21st-century, with the quince and cabbage hanging on strings, creating a descending arc of produce moving toward the viewer in a window against a sheer black ground. (Boston Globe) 'Prairie Town' exhibit to Interpretive Center  Apr 18, 2008 April 18, 2008 ONLINE EDITION. Entertainment Review : Art of Photography : Business Trends : Eyes of a Reporter. (Sioux City Journal, IO) Irish poet Eamon Grennan to read at Arts Cafe-Mystic  Apr 18, 2008 Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins has remarked that "few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the available marvels of the earth." Here, in "Detail" the concluding poem in his award-winning book Still Life with Waterfall Grennan crystallizes his approach to the making of poems ... Grennan has published eight volumes of his poems, including Still Life with Waterfall, which won the Lenore Marshall Award... (Westerly Sun, RI) Around Town April 10 -- Spring means expensive heels and garden projects  Apr 11, 2008 His works, mostly painted in oils, present the images that fascinate him as an artist: figures, portraits, still life, wildlife and livestock in their natural setting. The show will run at the Scituate Front Street Gallery from April 14 to 27, with an opening reception Friday, April 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. For more info, give the gallery a call at 781-545-6150. (Scituate Mariner, MA) Lutheran school auction to feature several special items  Apr 7, 2008 Corn s entries are a landscape, Mill at Alley Spring, and a still life, Red Zinnias, which earlier won the Missouri Merit Award. Red Zinnias will be presented at the show s opening reception on Sunday. (Rolla Daily News, MO) Olsen shows work that's part abstract, part still life  Apr 5, 2008 " Those early works were abstract views from above - helicopter views - rice paddies with their geometric lines and grids. In a way, those elements are still there in his work, though the subject matter focuses on his studio in a continuing "Wall" series he started in 1976. These works, individually titled "Wall," with a Roman numeral according to the number in the series, literally reflect the walls of his studios, from when he was on UGA campus to his backyard studio today. He points out how... (Athens Banner-Herald) Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009  Mar 29, 2008 Pierre Bonnard: Still Life and the Late Interiors (January 27-April 19, 2009) explores the interiors and still-life imagery of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) late in his career. The paintings, drawings and watercolors on view date from 1923 to 1947, representing Bonnard's relative isolation in his house in the southern French town of Le Cannet. (Suite101.com) DeWitt High School Student Voice  Mar 28, 2008 Gradually, we have progressed from still life to animals like birds and crabs to people. And drawing people has always been a challenge for me. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR) Color -- urban and rural -- a part of Hagin's world  Mar 28, 2008 Hagin is a realist painter of still lifes, and the 19 works on display are drawn from acrylic paintings on canvas done in her New York City studio and watercolors painted in her barn studio in upstate New York ... Lettuce-green ladders, rails and window trim show up in two of her still lifes -- "Ladder Stripes" and, to a lesser degree, "Grocery Greens," a 60-by-60-inch acrylic on canvas ... The green ladders and rails stop the still life from going out of the top of the painting. (NJ.com -- Times) Archives: Still life Back to Art News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008