ARTH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reception Piece, Food Presentation, Ashmolean Museum
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Subject looking at does not have direct connection. Xenia - food presented by host to guest. Academy considered it to be close to the bottom of the list. Hunt pictures - recorded game of king: still life 1706, still life with figs. Granted immediate entry into academie from this reception piece. Caught public off guard because so radical. Compels you to think about overlooked objects. Objects appear causal/ unmeditated but it is the opposite. Still life painting: b. s. chardin and his contemporaries. Vanitas - morbid symbolic objects to make aware of inevitability of death ordonnance, dessin, expression. Alexandre-fran ois desportes (1661-1743: still life, 1706, le havre, mus e des beaux-arts, still life with figs, apricots, and ducks, ca. Jean-baptiste oudry (1699-1779: bizarre antlers of a stag, 1741, fountainbleau, mus e national du ch teau, the white duck, 1753, private collection. Jean-baptiste simeon chardin (1699-1779: the ray fish, ca.
