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Still life with cherries
Theodor Aman1875 - 1891
Brukenthal National Museum
Sibiu, Romania
Still Life with Cherries is one of the works that shows Aman’s talent as an academic painter. This is witnessed by the entire well-balanced composition, the careful distribution of the elements that compose it, the interest in rendering every single detail of the objects with its specific texture, the attention for chromatic harmonies, and the skilful distribution of light and shadows. ©Iulia Mesea, Galeria de Artă Românească.Ghid, Sibiu 2011.
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- Title: Still life with cherries
- Creator Lifespan: 1831 - 1891
- Creator Nationality: Romanian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: București
- Creator Birth Place: Câmpulung Muscel
- Date: 1875 - 1891
- artist: Theodor Aman
- Physical Dimensions: w46 x h38 cm (without frame)
- Collecting: Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
- Artist Biography: Theodor Aman is “the father of modern Romanian painting”, the artist who synthesized the achievements and the pursuits of his predecessors. He studied in Paris with Michel Martin Drolling and François Edouard Picot, disciples of J.L. David, and pontiffs of the official art and remained, throughout his career, a classicist-academist. His creation is vast and embraces influences of Romanticism, “plein air” and even Impressionism. The artist assimilates multiple suggestions and creates his own personal manner in which light plays the major part: it balances the composition and it helps build a new artistic vision in which light and colour are the main structural elements of the image and of the artistic idea. Complex and profound personality, multilateral artist, painter, sculptor, architect, engraver and passionate art collector, Aman also played an essential part in creating and developing Romanian artistic education; together with Gheorghe Tattarescu he was the founder of the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, institution which contributed to setting the foundations for a modern artistic life in the Principalities. ©Iulia Mesea, Galeria de Artă Românească.Ghid, Sibiu 2011.
- Provenance: Brukenthal National Museum
- Type: Painting
- Medium: oil on canvas
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