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RE: A still life challenge - 10/10/2007 3:34:18 PM

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wow Lisa.. I'm NOT up in art history (degree in accounting! LOL).. but he's an amazing artist.. I hope to learn more though!!!

Willem Claeszoon Heda (December 14, 1594, Haarlem - c. 1680, Haarlem) was one of the earliest Dutch artists devoted exclusively to the painting of still life.

Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab by Willem Claeszoon Heda (1658) Oil on canvas Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem He was a contemporary and comrade of Dirck Hals, akin to him in pictorial touch and technical execution. But Heda was more careful and finished than Hals, showing considerable skill and taste in the arrangement and colouring of his chased cups, beakers and tankards of both precious and inferior metals. Nothing is so appetizing as his fare: delicacies such as oysters upon rich plate, and seldom without cut lemon, bread, champagne, olives and pastry. Even the more commonplace meals have charm, comprising sliced ham, bread, walnuts and beer.
One of Heda's early masterpieces, dated 1623 and in Alte Pinakothek, Munich, is as homely as a later one of 1651 in the Liechtenstein Gallery at Vienna. A more luxurious repast is a "Luncheon" in the Augsburg Gallery, dated 1644.
Most of Heda's pictures are on the European continent, notably in the galleries of Paris, Parma, Ghent, Darmstadt, Gotha, Munich and Vienna. He was a man of repute in his native city, filling all the offices of dignity and trust in the guild of Haarlem. He seems to have influenced considerably the young Frans Hals.

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/10/2007 4:31:58 PM

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Ok.. yay!!!!!

This will be fun!!!!!!!

So its like as Lisa said.. Painting not in the style of.. but recreating the subject.. "ode to Van Gogh".. "Ode to Cezanne".. or another one of your fave still life artists..

Deadline Dec 7th, 2007.. Voting from the 8th-14th..

Okay, just to clarify. This is basically a RIP of a famous still life, but you have to pick one that is a different style from your own?

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/10/2007 4:40:32 PM

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I wouldn't say you have to pick one in a different style from your own.. I'd say just pick something that inspires you to "rip" it.. or set up a still life inspired by a famous still life..

feel free to anyone to post examples of famous stills that would inspire us to rip.. I guess "rip" would be an appropriate term also?

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/10/2007 6:06:50 PM

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more clarification are we setting up a still life to represent the painting ( still life) ie I get some sun flwers sling em in a jug and call it avn gough? ( ok I'd work a bit harder than that. ) We're working from 3 demensional object not the painting itself right?

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 3:49:45 AM

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That's what i was thinking Nellie.. but really.. what do ya'll think??? I know that's more work.. I'm sure other peeps could change up a painting with out actually going thru the job of setting up the still life if you think that would get more people competing in the still life challenge.. i.e. like digital artists like Carolyn.. maybe she could do something digitally?? by doing a digital piece inspired by Van Gogh's sunflowers.. I could see Kris redoing a sunflower still inspired by Van gogh.. but in her style and not actually having to set it up. So maybe either.. I don't want to make it so hard that no one wants to do it??

I'm just trying to figure this out with all of you. I know it would be fun for me.. Using again Vangogh's sunflowers and doing a Polish Pottery still life and arranging the sunflowers similarly to Van Gogh's arrangement.. and call it Polish Pottery XXX: Ode to Van Gogh.. It wouldn't be copying.. but it would be inspired by.. But I could totally see Kris doing that same still life in her style going off from his painting..

Does that sound good?? I just want it to be FUN!!! For me.. setting up the still life would be fun.. for other's.. maybe just redoing a work without setting up would be ok.. as long as its an "inspired by" and not identical..

Thoughts??? Input?

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 6:34:25 AM

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I don't think I will be setting up a still, I'll just find a painting that inspires me and do it my way.

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 7:43:56 AM

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I think leaving it open to either method is a good idea

I kinda like the idea of trying to recreate the still life, but wonder if I would truly be able to do it...LOL

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 8:21:44 AM

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For me, I do have to set it up to get a photograph to start with. But, I have some ideas, just need the materials.

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 9:53:11 AM

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I'm in too! Will have to give this some thought as to how I want to do it, glad for the extra time.

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 9:59:14 AM

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I love doing stills, but can't until after my show in November...

Not sure how I'd do it though, it's difficult for me to set up stills around here and not get them disturbed, lol.

Would probably work from a photo, but, inspired by....

Manet comes to my mind....is this anyone we want to pick, or what?

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 11:57:09 AM

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pick anyone Tracey!! I'd guess as long as you credit them.. Inspired by Manet".. etc...etc..

this will be fun!!! can't wait to go shopping for the prize.. I knew there was a reason I HAD to go back to Poland!! LOL!!

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 12:00:27 PM

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I was kinda thinking of putting a bunch of dolls in a vase and calling Van goughs sun flowers

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 12:20:29 PM

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You know what! I would LOVE to do this. As for this moment, I am going to ask Brian to let me get in a couple hours of painting in the next couple of weeks so I can join in the fun. Its been so long, I wonder how crappy I have gotten?!

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/11/2007 7:22:58 PM

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Yay Shannon! Jump back in

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RE: A still life challenge - 10/31/2007 7:16:27 AM

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**bump**

I'll be starting my piece after I finish up current painting.. though it will just be for fun for me.. since i'm awarding the prize..

I'll start a new thread for entries and rules.. The contest starts tomorrow and goes till December 7th..

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RE: A still life challenge - 11/8/2007 4:26:51 AM

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Hoping to narrow down my inspired by piece.. Looking at recreating a Janet Fish inspired still life.. I absolutely have fallen in love with her stills!!

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RE: A still life challenge - 11/15/2007 10:44:21 AM

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hmmm I was going to do mine on Heda but now I'm thinking I just don't want to do something so dark. It's so dark outside it's like it's always 5pm all day long. Blah. I'm now thinking....

Renoir

Morandi

Easton

Now suppose I can't narrow it down, can I say RenoirEastonMorandi is my inspiration?

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RE: A still life challenge - 11/15/2007 12:16:18 PM

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Yeah why not.. I guess as long as you explain it?.. I mean.. for my piece.. i'm not copying Janet Fish's composition.. I just studied her work and got ideas and i guess I could say she "inspired" me.. hehe.. Actually I liked how she had outside scenes showing.. I love that she liked to paint reflective surfaces and glass with liquids or anything shiny!!

I don't see why you couldn't say.. you pulled this from Renoir.. that from Morandi.. and this part from easton..

I think there could be so many renditions of this.. to even just redoing a still life without setting up and just have it be so uniquely yours..

Ok.. just got home and I'll be back to painting in a bit! Yay!

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RE: A still life challenge - 11/15/2007 12:51:37 PM

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Lisa, you could set up a composite... that looks interesting!

I am gathering the props for mine, The Black Clock by Cezanne. A tablecloth, a clock, a shell, a cup, a glass vase and an inkwell (had to look that up, I wasn't sure what it was...) It is set up in front of a mirror, too. I may not bother with that...

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RE: A still life challenge - 11/15/2007 1:22:04 PM

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ooo muriel.. that's gonna be a fun one!!!

Ok.. need to get back to painting tonight.. I had hoped to finish today.. but I've been gone most the day..

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