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This 3 page paper describes the Rachel Ruysch painting "Floral Still Life" and viewer reaction to it. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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her period" (Biography). It may be that she got her love of flowers from her father, who was a botanist; certainly she is famous for her paintings of them, and
for her detailed portraits of the crystal vases that hold them (Biography). She worked in Amsterdam, The Hague, and D?sseldorf, "where from 1708 to 1716 she was court painter to
the Elector Palatine" (Biography). She painted "richly devised bouquets ... in delicate colours with meticulous detail, and their artistry and craftsmanship are worthy of the finest tradition of Dutch
flower painting" (Biography). She apparently liked the dark backgrounds that her teacher van Aelst used, because she continued to work with them "long after van Huysum and other contemporaries had
gone over to light backgrounds" (Biography). Ruysch lived to be 85, and the dates of her paintings indicate that she painted throughout her lifetime; however, only about 100 paintings
are known today (Biography). It is speculated that this is because she worked slowly, and also as a wife and mother of ten children, had other responsibilities that took her
away from her art (Biography). If we look at the painting itself, the first thing we notice is how dark it is. (Part of this may be that its hard
to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with very dark backgrounds. This
painting reminds a viewer of "Las Meninas" by Diego Velasquez in the use of light and dark. Velasquez surrounds a brilliant central image with a vast darkness, and so does
Ruysch. Of course the two paintings are not comparable in subject matter, but the deep brown/black of the shadows in the Ruysch is evocative of the Velasquez. The painting is
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