Objects and still life
Traditional still life when looking back through the history of art was often fruit, a plate and a knife
painted within an oil painting. This was seen as a symbol of religious fruitfulness without
placing the person within a painting and was often the starting piece for an artist.
This work by Daisy Linda Ward that stands in Ashmoliean in Oxford, takes the objects painted in such detail. The orange skin draws you invitingly in which almost feels like an indulgent early advertisement playing on desire, thirst and lust from the fruit to the drink
Daisy Linda Ward 1883-1937 Still LIfe with a Lemon and a Porcelain Pitcher
When thinking about objects in art one of the first artists I go to is an Andy Warhol piece
of the
Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Cans 1965
Campbells soup tins.
The work I am looking at right now is by Tony Cragg who takes an everyday object and not necessarily upcycling it to reproduce into some kind of art. Simply taking the object and displaying them in a way that makes you see beyond the object itself can be self-explanatory. I chose this image of his work with a thought about water purity there is something historical about the way it is displayed .
Cumlus 1998 Tony Cragg
