6. a deep, intense gaze.
and
a golden apple
is thought to be the portrait of Francesco Maria I Della Rovere,
nephew of Pope Julius II and adopted son of Guidubaldo
and Elisabetta Gonzaga, who was named heir to the Duchy of Urbino
… the golden apple would symbolize the choice of Paris which
earned him temporal power
Raffaello Sanzio
Raphaël
Young Man with an Apple
Le Jeune Homme à la pomme
1505
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
7.
8. the oranges, a reminder of an original innocence, of an age before sin
but ...
if they are apples (it is difficult to be certain), these would be the symbol
be the temptation of knowledge and the Fall
Jan van Eyck
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
Les Époux Arnolfini
1434
National Gallery, London
9.
10.
11.
12. the ancient idols,
the simple Tahitian women,
the Virgin Mary
Eve and the apple
... all come together in a single space
Paul Gauguin
Nava Nave Moe
Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams
Printemps sacré: Doux rêves
1894
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
13.
14.
15. three Christian symbols:
the halo
and
the snake and the apple ... references to the garden of Eden, temptation,
sin and the Fall of Man
… Gauguin painting himself as both saint and sinner
Paul Gauguin
Autoportrait au nimbe
Self-Portrait with Halo
1889
National Gallery of Art, Washington
16.
17.
18. a family portrait
and a moralizing significance ...
the red apple refers to fertility and the
seventeenth-century bourgeois marriage ethic
that was aimed at reproduction
Cornelis de Vos
Family Portrait
Portrait de famille
1630
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
19.
20.
21. a silver rattle and an apple in imitation of an sceptre and orb
and
a dwarf
(a comic major-domo to the future king of Spain …)
Diego Velázquez
Prince Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf
Le Prince Baltasar Carlos avec un nain
1631
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
22.
23.
24.
25. the apple on the table, symbol of the temptation of Eve
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Le Verrou
The Bolt
1777
Musée du Louvre, Paris
30. a dark composition …
an earthen jar
a coconut
a walnut
and
an apple which begins to rot by the peduncle
Edvard Munch
Still Life with Jar, Apple, Walnut and Coconut
Nature morte avec pot, pomme, noix et noix de coco
1881
Munchmuseet, Oslo
31.
32. this still life already has something surreal :
an apple in the shape of a breast or skull
Pablo Picasso
Fruits dans un fruitier
Fruit Bowl with Fruit
1918
Collection particulière
33.
34. painted in 1919 by a Picasso in the middle of a classicizing period …
a pitcher
a plate
and
four apples
Pablo Picasso
Nature morte avec une cruche et aux pommes
Still-life With a Pitcher and Apples
1919
Musée Picasso, Paris
35.
36. a green apple …
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Carafe à demi pleine de vin gobelet
d'argent
The Silver Goblet
1728
Saint Louis Art Museum
37.
38. "A painter can say everything with fruits
or flowers, or clouds only “ …
Edouard Manet
Le Panier de fruits
Basket of Fruit
1864
Museum of Fine Arts de Boston
39.
40. a basket of grapes and apples …
Claude Monet
Still-Life with Apples and Grapes
Nature morte aux pommes et raisins
1879-1880
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
41.
42. painted on the cedarwood lid of
a Villar Y Villar cigar box …
Auguste Renoir
Apples and walnuts
Nature morte avec des pommes et des noix
1860-1870
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
45. dish, glass and apples
Paul Cézanne
Nature morte au compotier
Still Life with Fruit Dish
1879-1980
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
46.
47. an apple ...
a poetic symbol for Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Pommes et biscuits
Apples and biscuits
1879-1882
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
48.
49. apples and oranges …
modernity and sumptuous beauty
Paul Cézanne
Still-Life with Apples and Oranges
Pommes et oranges
1899
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
50.
51. one of the most unusual, mysterious, and discussed of Cézanne's work
...
a white colored plaster with no arms
onions
and
apples
Paul Cézanne
Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre
Still Life with Plaster Cupid
1895
Courtauld Gallery, London
52.
53.
54. an awkwardly naked and recoiling figure
her suitor
an African chambermaid
and
the gargantuan decorative elements:
the red curtain
the vase of flowers
the titan-supported table
and
red apples in a basket
Paul Cézanne
Une moderne Olympia, Le Pacha
A Modern Olympia, Pasha
1867-1870
Collection privée
58. oversized, enlarged apple
the fruit occupies all the space,
this magnification is disturbing
because the object normally holds in the hand
… Magritte questions the human scale
Rene Magritte
The Listening Room
La Chambre D'Ecoute
1952
Menil Collection, Houston
59.
60.
61. a low wall
the sea and a cloudy sky
a bowler
a man
and
a hovering green apple
everything we see hides another thing,
we always want to see what is hidden by what we see …
Rene Magritte
The Son of Man
Le fils de l'homme
1964
Private Collection
62.
63.
64. a beach in front of the sea and the famous clouds
a pear
an apple
Is it still life?
In the spirit of the surrealist that is Magritte probably not!
this image it is here the image of an apple and the image of a pear,
not of the fruits themselves …
Rene Magritte
Memory of a Voyage
Souvenirs de Voyage
1959
Collection privée
65.
66.
67. masked apple …
a personification of the fruit,
a perfect image of the Magrittian mystery
Rene Magritte
The Married Priest II
Le prêtre marié
1961
Private collection
68.
69.
70. dwarfism the table covered with a linen tablecloth
and
the gigantism of the apple
an inverted logic ... the uncertainty reigns
and that is precisely what Magritte is aiming for
Rene Magritte
Les belles réalités
Fine realities
1964
Collection privée
71.
72. perception and reality ...
this is not a apple, it’s an image of a apple
... and if you don’t believe it, Magritte challenges :
“just try eat my apple"
Bon appetite!
Rene Magritte
This is Not an Apple
Ceci n'est pas une pomme
1964
Private Collection
73.
74.
75. apple defying the laws of universal gravitation
Rene Magritte
The Postcard
La Carte Postale
1960
Mayor Gallery, London
76.
77.
78. the mystery of the apple
or
the play of the visible, the invisible and the visible hidden
Rene Magritte
Beautiful World
Le Beau Monde
1962
Private collection
83. "Nuclear Mysticism" period …
still life in motion
things and objects, of material and immaterial presences
circulate, fly, let themselves be seen and feel ...
the fruit bowl and the apple in motion split and are distorted
Salvador Dali
Nature Morte Vivante
Still Life-Fast Moving
1956
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
84.
85.
86. olga_oes
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