Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Tilted Planes

Lucian Freud
Still Life with Chelsea Buns
1943
oil on panel
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Pekka Halonen
Still Life
1894
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Alfred Wickenburg
Still Life with Books
1924
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Still Life with Strawberries
ca. 1600-1625-
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts

Harm Kamerlingh Onnes
Still Life with Pudding Mold
1931
oil on panel
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Herbert Ploberger
Still Life
1925
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Andreas Georgiadis
Still Life
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Georg Hinz
Still Life with Ewer
1666
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Levi Wells Prentice
Still Life with Strawberries
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Nils Schillmark
Still Life with Candle
ca. 1795-97
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Rudolf Wacker
Still Life with Funnel
1931
oil on panel
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Louise Moillon
Still Life with Fruit and Asparagus
1630
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Isaak Soreau
Still Life with Strawberries
ca. 1630-35
tempera and oil on panel
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Panayiotis Tetsis
Still Life
1998
watercolor on paper
National Gallery, Athens

Émile Bernard
Still Life
1887
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
ca. 1958
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

from The Island of Statues

                             Hear, daughter of the days.
Behold the loving loveless flower of lone ways,
Well-nigh immortal in this charmèd clime;
Thou shalt outlive thine amorous happy time,
And dead as are the lovers of old rhyme
Shall be the hunter-lover of thy youth.
Yet evermore, through all thy days of ruth,
Shall grow thy beauty and thy dreamless truth;
As a hurt leopard fills with ceaseless moan
And aimless wanderings the woodlands lone,
Thy soul shall be, though pitiless and bright
It is, yet shall it fail thee day and night
Beneath the burden of the infinite,
In those far years, O daughter of the days,
And when thou hast these things for ages felt,
The red squirrel shall rear her young where thou hast dwelt.

– W.B. Yeats (1885)