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Along
with landscapes and portraiture, still lifes are one of the three
major subjects for the traditional painter. The still life is a genre
of paintings that dates back to the classical period. Pliny the Elder
(23 - 79AD) wrote of the third-century painter Peirakos, who painted
common objects so beautifully that they sold for higher prices than
other artists' grander works. Still life painting reached its greatest
popularity in the "Golden Age" of 17th-century Holland,
when wealthy burghers and a growing middle class collected still lifes
of flowers, fruit and common household objects painted in an illusionist
manner. In America, still lifes were part of the young nation's artistic
tradition from the beginning. The Peale family, the first great American
painting clan, focused largely on still lifes. Like these admired
still life painters of the past, our artists of today paint objects
both elegant and commonplace in a variety of settings. |
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Robert
K. Semans
"Yellow Roses"
24 " x 20"
Oil on Panel
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