Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

"Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.”

W H Auden:

"But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Our Still Life!

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) is considered a master of still life.


Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 'The Silver Goblet' c. 1768

And now more than 200 years after his passing...

'A century of still life'


Spectator