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Morton Wayne Thiebaud ( / ˈtiːboʊ / TEE-boh; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.
- National Medal of Arts (1994)
A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
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May 1, 2020 · In 2020, the art world weathered the loss of pioneers of painting and avant-garde illustrators, titans of curation and collectors whose memory endures beyond their idiosyncratic holdings (some of...
Jan 2, 2021 · Gareth Harris. 2 January 2021. As 2021 dawns, we want to pay tribute to the artists, curators, writers and dealers who died in 2020. Below is a selection of our obituaries for the year (click on...
Dec 22, 2020 · The artists on this list could help us better understand the time we’re living through, or at least help us get through it with a smile or cathartic cry. Here is a tribute to them, in their own...
Henri Fantin-Latour. Henri Fantin Latour, Still Life Vase Of Hydrangeas And Ranunculus, 1866. Known for his quietly rendered still lifes, French painter Henri Fantin-Latour was an artist whose work evolved during the advent of Impressionism.
Still life refers to a work of art that depicts an arrangement of inanimate everyday objects – man-made or natural – such as flowers, food or glassware. Although the idea of still life has been around since ancient times, it first developed as an independent genre in the Netherlands during the early 1600s.
