Cezanne is renowned for his still lifes of fruit, often painted fresh from a local farmer's market.
Aside from fashion and other commercial photography, Horst produced a wealth of gorgeous still lifes and close-ups of flowers.
Students do not come to Parsons to draw still lifes, he says.
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Phillip Conisbee, Senior Curator at Washington's National Gallery, said Cezanne's early still lifes were stolid and dull until Pisarro taught him to loosen his brushstrokes in the Impressionist style.
The still lifes are a warm-up for the exhibition's main event: four large galleries of landscapes, the best of which give a splendid impression of Van Gogh's mercurial, impassioned genius.
One was with Testino, the other with photographer Tessa Traeger, who was regarded as British Vogue's Irving Penn for the still lifes she created for food writer Arabella Boxer's pages.
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Dutch painters of the era maintained dizzyingly exalted standards of excellence across a range of genres, working for a market in which history paintings functioned as large-denomination currency and still-lifes were useful small change.
"The Late Interiors" is the first show dedicated solely to Bonnard's late interiors and still lifes, spanning the artist's last 25 years, from 1923 (when he was 57) to 1947 (a month or so before his death).
An even more egregious omission, given that this book attempts to look at how cuisine defines French culture as a whole, is visual art: there is no mention of the sumptuous culinary still-lifes by Chardin, the countless Impressionist picnics, brioches by Bonnard or mealtimes by Matisse, images that have literally transformed food into art in a specifically French way.
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