Still life with cabbage, garlic, quince and flowers was finished in fall, 2019.
Setting this still life was easy, sort of impulsive. I’ve been following the strong colors of some fruit, vegetables in the kitchen. It has obviously started with the purple violet cabbage, just gorgeous color calling me to paint it. By the way, anthocyanins are the pigments giving the red cabbage its strong color. Then garlic, crisp white but with slight violet shades. Ripe yellow quince. Flowers from the garden. And the blue glass for the smaller bouquet! Sunlight in fall is special, soft and warm, giving special nuances to objects. And in an ununderstandable way telling the year has just turned around, the winter coming to end the eternal cycle for this year. I guess this was just the mood I’ve been in painting this still life. And I am quiet happy with how has it turned out, catching all those strong colors, but in a way calming them down, playing with background of the painting.
Anthocyanins (also anthocyans; from Greek: ἄνθος (anthos) “flower” and κυάνεος/κυανοῦς kyaneos/kyanous “dark blue”) are water-soluble vacuolar pigments that, depending on their pH, may appear red, purple, blue or black. Food plants rich in anthocyanins include the blueberry, raspberry, black rice, and black soybean, among many others that are red, blue, purple, or black. Some of the colors of autumn leaves are derived from anthocyanins.[1][2] from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
Anthocyanins belong to a parent class of molecules called flavonoids synthesized via the phenylpropanoid pathway. They occur in all tissues of higher plants, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits. Anthocyanins are derived from anthocyanidins by adding sugars.[3] They are odorless and moderately astringent. from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
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