Daily Painting

Bread and cheese

18cm 12cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Sunday, 22 January 2012 · Still life paintings

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Thoughts on this painting

7 comments

dorothy koppelman

Dear Julian - I like your individual objects very much--a garlic, a peeled orange, the chunk of cheese. I question I address in my Aesthetic Realism Critical Inquiry class in NYC is: What is the relation of an individual object to the reality outside the object. Is it like our indivicual relation to the world outside us? Some question right? But I think good art depends on the deep answer, the technically shown answer to that question. Thanks for your objects. DK

Paula Thompson

lovely. you've taken bread and cheese and made it both mysterious and dramatic and still humble and approachable.

Barbara Michel

Wonderful contrast of textures in a soft light and a good idea about the champagne.

Bridgette Turner

One of the things I appreciate is your control of light and shadow. The shadow and control of values between the bread and cheese is masterful. From you I expect no less and am seldom dissapointed. Thank you for your talent.

Painter’s notes

A little slice of Brillat-Savarin a cheese made in Burgundy which apparently eats well with Champagne...

Julian Merrow-Smith ·