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| | Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots and Cruets on a Table |
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Date : 1769
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting (Still Life)
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France
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The combination of thickly applied pigment and thin, smooth glazes animates this simple depiction of everyday objects. Chardin's vigorous brushwork, evident in the scales of the hanging mackerel, evokes a freedom that contradicts his characteristically laborious working method. An insightful observation of nature, this work was imbued with a solemnity that elevated the genre of still life painting from the low stature it occupied in the eighteenth-century.
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Still life
"Still life" is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea shells and the like) or man-made (drinking glasses, foodstuffs, pipes, books and so on).
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