Oil on MDF wood panel, circa 25 cm x 25 cm / 10 in. x 10 in., June 2022
Mastercopy and Methodical Study
Pieter Claesz is an old master among the most noteworthy practitioners of Vanitas, a genre of painting that translates a human life into a poetry of objects. Within these still lives, a human being is displaced from their face to their possessions: the quill as a sign of authorship, the compass as a life oriented around travel, and the lemon for the false appearance of sweetness and the bitter soul that hides within... Vanitas painting captured what portraits could not: the essence of a person through their morals, bonds, skills and feats.
Karya has long been drawn to the visual literature of Vanitas, finding it to be a truer representation of a person. This mastercopy functions not as a mere imitation but as a close study. Through it, she familiarises herself with Claesz’s silent colour palettes and his calibration of light against opacity.
Oil on MDF wood panel, circa 25 cm x 25 cm / 10 in. x 10 in., June 2022
Mastercopy and Methodical Study
Pieter Claesz is an old master among the most noteworthy practitioners of Vanitas, a genre of painting that translates a human life into a poetry of objects. Within these still lives, a human being is displaced from their face to their possessions: the quill as a sign of authorship, the compass as a life oriented around travel, and the lemon for the false appearance of sweetness and the bitter soul that hides within... Vanitas painting captured what portraits could not: the essence of a person through their morals, bonds, skills and feats.
Karya has long been drawn to the visual literature of Vanitas, finding it to be a truer representation of a person. This mastercopy functions not as a mere imitation but as a close study. Through it, she familiarises herself with Claesz’s silent colour palettes and his calibration of light against opacity.
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