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The Victorian critic and artistΒ John RuskinΒ believed all beauty comes from nature. Look closely at his painting of a Bleinheim Orange apple (1873), and you'll see how Ruskin's lighting and shadow animate and dramatise a simple object.
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Eggs, fresh bread, a cool glass of wine, and a flower to rest your eyes on ~ I like the simplicity of 17th century German still-life specialist Georg Flegelβs βSnack with Fried Eggsβ (1630), State Gallery Aschaffenburg
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'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was published in the 1950s.
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Cherries and cheese by a beautiful blue pitcher in 1760 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day.
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Diderot found βmore poetry in a single tree which has suffered the buffets of the years and seasons, than in all the faΓ§ade of a palace. A palace must be in ruins to be an object of interest.β
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Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
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The almost sacred perfection of a bunch of asparagus, 1697, by Adriaen Coorte. Itβs been his day today.
