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 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…..
Still Life with Violet and Lemon, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2022
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!
Contemporary still life Tangram paradox and flowers
It’s been already November, as I’ve brought a small bouquet of late fall flowers, some pink baby roses, from the garden to my studio. I’ve put the flowers in a white vase on the table. Just to make me happy. I’ve been working hard on my Ostia Antica landscape painting series. Yet there, on the table, just near the pink bouquet, has been also an old wooden tangram puzzle in bold colors, who knows by which coincidence. Sublime petals of late autumn flowers have been in shades of pink, in a way belonging more to the past summers than to that November day. Yet they have strangely corresponded to the strong vivid colors of the geometric shapes of the puzzle near by. It ‘s been like watching at two worlds at once, like at impressionism and cubism, if you want. Or poetry and math. Or dreams and reality. And, paradoxically, it’s worked together perfectly well.
Tangram paradox
Tangram paradox: A dissection fallacy discovered by Dudeney (1958). The same set of tangram pieces can apparently produce two different figures, one of which is a proper subset of the other. This seems true only at a first glance: in reality the area is the same in both cases, since in the left picture the missing foot is compensated by a larger body. from: Barile, Margherita. “Tangram Paradox.” From MathWorld–A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TangramParadox.html
Green Vase, oil on canvas still lifepainting just finished! It’s been a challenge to put together all the strong colors with the delicacy of the green vase with pink flowers! A vase I’ve painted several times by now, has that deep green glaze reflecting the light and turning just into any surrounding color possible. What about yellow? With some help of blue, it can be done! What do you think?
Still life with a landscape, or a landscape with a still life?
Painted in October 2020 are two porcelain figurines and a bouquet in a blue vase on the table by the window in my art studio.
From my window I can see green hills with trees, houses and sky. I often just sit by the window and watch the colors of sky. Just by the nuance of its blue color I can tell the weather is going to change.
Painted here are the flowers from my garden, pink and purple asters planted there many years ago. Yet they have stayed at the same place for all the time and since I can remember they start to bloom just about the time when the summer is ending. Observing the colder temperatures of the air, the colors of the sky, the first rains of the season and the clouds of tiny purple stars, asters, one can know for sure the autumn has come.
This October has been a bit different, hitting the second lock down I’ve been sitting by my working table in my studio, wondering when the life would go back to normal……Looking at the flowers and seeing all the colors of that October day I’ve felt almost as being transferred into the future, normal future. Or was it just a day dream? Has it been s still life full of colors that has brought back all the memories of normal Octobers? Or has it been the landscape behind the window promising me the better days to come?
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