Daily Painting

Daily painting: Still Life with Peach and Silver Goblet

Still Life with Peach and Silver Goblet

15cm x 13cm (6"x5½"), oil on gessoed card

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Monday, 14 September 2009 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

6 comments

Parke Schaffer

Julian: Your edges are effortless, non-existent, perfect.

I am enjoying your post cards... such a bright spot in every day. Thanks Julian.

Bernie Aronson

Fill the goblet with wine and drink a toast to a perfect peach. The colors glow against the black background. Lovely.

Alain

At first, by its size, this pot-bellied peach immediately catches the eye. But soon, because of the oblique straight line of its shadow, the peach becomes for me a weightless entity, an incandescent red planet,with its masked facet (the Yin shadow),and half covering a brightly sun inside (the Yang): so attractive scorcher...The gobelet here ("Poor devil"!)tries to reassure, but it is (almost) an immaterial passive entity, only made up of reflections.
Now if I draw the outlines of the whole still life (gobelet + peach but without the shadows), one can perceive a geometric nose cone, with its apex being the upper tip of the oblique line, a nose cone, maybe evoking the religious symbol. I find this work is more than a naturalistic picture, more than a "postcard": a visionary "mind" stands behind.