Still Life With Parrots after Jan Davidsz. de Heem by Tamara Jare is a vivid, expressive work that bursts with color and energy. The composition is dominated by a vibrant still life scene featuring a variety of elements such as fruits, birds, and decorative objects.
Key Features:
Bold Use of Color: The painting is characterized by a striking palette of bright reds, oranges, yellows, blues, and greens. The colors are applied in a dynamic, almost frenetic manner, creating a sense of movement and vibrancy.
Parrots: Prominently positioned in the upper left section of the painting are two parrots. These birds, rendered in bright reds with green accents, are eye-catching and add a lively, exotic element to the composition.
Fruit and Decorative Objects: The table is covered with an array of fruits, including lemons, pomegranates, a melon and a cucumber, all depicted with expressive brushstrokes. There are also various decorative items, such as a purple glass vessel and a golden vase, adding to the opulent feel of the still life.
Dynamic Background: The background features abstract shapes and colors, with a strong contrast of dark blues and blacks against the brighter tones in the foreground. This creates a dramatic backdrop that enhances the vibrancy of the scene.
Expressive Brushwork: The brushstrokes are loose and expressive, contributing to the overall dynamic feel of the painting. There is a sense of spontaneity and immediacy in the application of paint, which adds to the energy of the piece.
Overall, this painting by Tamara Jare is a celebration of color and life, with a composition that draws the viewer in through its vivid imagery and expressive style.
Still Life from my Studio is my new canvas. It has been a rather dark cloudy morning, so I have decided to set up this cheerful still life just to bring some colors to my studio. Some red tomatoes, three onions, a pomegranate, a pear and an orange, and a blue glass vase contrasting the empty gilded wooden frame. And my brushes in a Japanese vase with some green decor. Which has this time interested me more than the color scheme has been the empty space. The equilibrium between what has been told and what holds the composition in the space. The eternal juxtaposition between the white color and all the colors of the day.
Still Life with Violet and Lemon is my new painting, oil on canvas. Love the dark violet hues of the flower, reflecting blues from the sky and reddish stems with dark green leaves.S ky was blue and vibrant colors trembled as I set the still life to paint…..
It’s been one of those mornings, when light is bright and garden is still calm, like enveloped in the mist of the night just passed and the blossoms of colorful flowers appear after the dark of the night to celebrate the day. Complete solitude is needed to enter the code of color world, walking down the garden feels like entering trough portals of eternal beauty. Picking flowers for a bouquet is a meditative task and as I’ve been picking the first peonies of the season I’ve remembered how happy I’ve been planting these pale pink peonies and how long have I waited before thy started to blossom. Their sweet scent of early summer each June gives me joy and makes me want to paint them in all their gorgeous beauty, so fragile and short lived, but year after year appearing in the corner of the garden, near a small Japanese maple.
Daffodils are among the first spring flowers in our garden. Their yellow and white blossoms seem as a sort of floral stars, or little suns perhaps, reflecting the strong sunlight of early spring. As this year unusual April snow was predicted, I picked a bouquet of daffodils, to save at least some of them. Indeed next morning snow came, turning the landscape back to winter, silhouettes of near by hills appeared like cut from white paper against the bright blue sky with many clouds bringing even more snow. Daffodils bouquet in green glass vase by the window reflected all those shades of the late April snow. Flower petals appeared almost as made from glassine paper, catching the scarce warmth from the morning sun rays into their translucent shapes. What an abundance of the light caught in the shades of the daffodil’s yellows and whites against the sharp colors of the landscape! Just a feast to paint!
Happy to announce my painting Rainy Day Bouquet is featured in the Saatchi Art New This Week Collection! Discover art you love from a collection of new artworks handpicked by Saatchi Art Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson! Discover the collection here, enjoy!
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