Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

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Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting



A richly detailed journey through the epic history of still life painting, featuring a range of delights from the earliest existing Xenia mural paintings discovered at Pompeii to the cubist masterpieces of Picasso.

Awash with rich imagery of fruit, flowers and humble domestic objects, this lively take on the story of still life encompasses the work of some of the genre's greatest artists from Caravaggio to Chardin and Cezanne. But it also captures the surprising contributions of the less well known, including asparagus enthusiast Adriaen Coorte and female flower painter in the court of Louis XVI, Anne Vallayer-Coster.

With contributions from historians Bettany Hughes and Janina Ramirez, art historians Andrew Graham Dixon and Norman Bryson, and philosopher Alain de Botton amongst others, it opens up the huge social histories that lie behind the paintings and the fascinating lives of the people who made them.











【不只靜物畫】






■ 播出時間：3/15 週日上午11點
人手一台手機、到處可以自拍，現代生活是絕對不缺影像的，我們受快速剪接，移動的廣告和媒體傳播疲勞轟炸，視覺刺激 無處不在，藝想世紀讓大家回歸靜態美術的純粹感受，推出「不只靜物畫」一片。

靜物畫的重點，不在觀看而在領會，靜物畫要我們停下腳步，以全新觀點探討世界，我們喜愛日常生活，簡單事物的衝動念 頭，可回溯到久遠時間以前，歷史上藝術家一直用靜物畫，幫助人們了解自然之美，以及在身邊所創造物質世界的價值，靜 物畫要訴說驚異奇事、卑微事物的描繪，是如何被貶到藝術階層最低位置！？又怎樣地高升扮演起，藝術最創新時刻的要角 ，而今日又以意想不到的方式長存，這些演變，值得大家一一探究。