Medieval Still-life Paintings

View from the Train, 2019 24" X 40" x 1", oil on canvas This contemporary oil painting depicting a metropolitan view is the work of realist painter Patty Neal. The painting offers an intimate view of the city, as seen from a window, as it peeks from behind two metal structures. The dark browns and bright golds beautifully compliment the dusty blue, gray sky. Neal works highlight everyday city scenes, utilitarian infrastructure, and industrial or electrical apparatus. Artist statement: A life is an accumulation of experiences: visual, emotional and mental. By compartmentalizing these snippets of life we create boundaries. The focus of my work for many years has been the exploration of these various life aspects and how they are bound together or bound from each other. My process is often literally composed of boundaries. I make a painting by putting together multiple panels, or I segment a single panel into separate visual spaces. The works are made up of pieces or elements of city and landscape. While exploring the concepts of boundaries I play with visual “reality.” Sometimes I combine images that are upside down with those that are not and juxtapose images from different contexts. Literal boundaries, such as walls fences, expanses of water and highway median strips are also used. My intent is to invite viewers to look beyond these boundaries to see the possibilities of a connected whole. About the artist: Solo Exhibitions 2011 "Interior/Exterior", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York 2008 ”Landscape Revisited”, 1870 Gallery, Belmont 2005 Nomad Rug Gallery, San Francisco 2004 "Landscapes"@Klein's, San Francisco 2004 "Landscape Renewed," Space 743, San Francisco 2003 Exploding Head...

Bathed in luminous Mediterranean light, Wisteria in Italy captures a dreamlike hillside scene glimpsed through a curtain of violet-blue wisteria blooms. The composition reveals Faith...

This is a beautifully framed contemporary floral still-life oil painting of pink and white peonies in a sterling vase in a traditional style by Pennsylvania artist Sharon Henderson. ...

Through the Poppy Impressionism Floral 8" x 8" Landscape Spiritual Meaning Poppies grow well in Texas, especially the red corn poppy, and are celebrated in cities like Georgetown, known as the "Red Poppy Capital of Texas". They are typically planted in the fall for a spring bloom and thrive in full sun with well-drained soil. Texas also has native varieties like the white prickly poppy and Mexican gold poppy. V....Vaughan is known for impressionist paintings of wildlife...

This is the silhouette of a Japanese aralia (paperplant, false castor oil plant, fatsia japonica). The big leaves have nine lobes and spread out wide. The sky is painted a pale peac...

This original oil painting on birchwood panel is painted in the shades of pale green wildflowers that one sees along forest paths and clearings as summer approaches. This is the silh...

"Backyard Sunset" By Carl Grauer Oil on Canvas 20x20 inches, 21 x 21 x 3 inches framed in painted white wood floater frame Signed en verso Artist Carl Grauer expertly and astutely c...

The Italian outdoors is a common theme in Nelson White paintings. These paintings use the Italian countryside depicting the poppy fields as scene for his paintings. His paintings sho...

'Morning Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting refere...

Richard Ballinger is a British landscape and still-life painter. “I do not draw in the landscape, I draw from it. It’s taken me inside, to the studio, imagining how it should be ...

Wreath: ROME from artist Stephenie Peek who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness and beauty. Inspired by a time the artist spent in Italy and found herself strongly drawn to the history and mystery of antique Roman laurels. Here, the golden wreath appears to float above the clouds in a surrealist, Magritte-like sky. The clear blue has an ethereal quality with glimmering gold. The painting's edges are painted white, so framing is not required. If framing is desired, we can provide it for an additional cost. Signed, dated and titled verso by artist: Artist's statement— The genesis of this oil painting, “Wreath,” is the classic laurel wreath fashioned in gold and awarded to victors, both athletic and poetic, in ancient Greece and Rome. From my studio at the American Academy in Rome, I looked out over the city and imagined these memorials to those who have crossed finish lines, so to speak, who have won their races. Suspended in silence, this wreath speaks for me not only of wordly success with its ephemeral nature, but also of a kind of lasting victory that art can remind us of. "Ars longa...

Raymond Bonilla's "Downtown Run" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a building in brilliant warm light contrasted by a blue sky. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla ...