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Pear and faisselle pot
16cm x 12cm, oil on board
Painting status: SOLD
Painted Tuesday, 7 February 2012 · Still life paintings
Daily Painting
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Painting status: SOLD
Painted Tuesday, 7 February 2012 · Still life paintings
“The pot is an old cheese mold used for making a form of fresh cheese called Faisselle. Faisselle is common here on restaurant menus and is served as a dessert with fruit and/or honey”
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Faisselle sounds so good. And the pot is beautiful though I'm sure the maker did not have beauty as his main or even secondary intent.
The painting, of course, is wonderful.
I find that the specific layout of this painting(like in so many others),in which the objects nearly take all the place,shares a like Georgia O'Keeffe and Melendez among others
www.okeeffemuseum.org/natural-and-still-life-forms.html
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2009/melendez/index.shtm
But what is unique in this painting is at first,the upper outline of the pear that seems to be an extension of the fortress outline(as a desirable neckline),then,the arrow slit of that imaginary fortress on the pot,as a doorway to dreams of mouth watering desserts...
(Sorry) "...shares a common filiation with the layouts of Georgia O'Keeffe..."
I really love your still lifes, like this one. It is lovely...