Still Life #2
Artist
George Forster
(1817 - 1896)
Date1889
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions14 x 12 in.
ClassificationsOil Painting
Credit LineGiven in memory of Anthony and Mary Malinowski
Terms
Object number1993.32
DescriptionThe artist's placement of fruit against a landscape is characteristic of the "natural" still life's promoted by English aesthetician John Ruskin. In contrast to Old Master Dutch tabletop still life's, which combined natural and artificial objects, Ruskin believed in representing fruits in a pure, organic state. When in the 1860's the Pre-Raphaelite Society for the Advancement of Truth in America was founded, it became an outlet for Ruskinian aesthetics and enabled his teachings to be academically disseminated.On View
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