What is it about?
It's an abstract of a poster presented at the Visual Science of Art Conference (Berlin, 2017). It treats the realism in 17th- and 18th-century still-life paintings: objects like fruits and flowers look as if the beholder can walk around them and easily grab a piece to take a bite. How come a painting can be experienced as such? The answers lie on the crossroads of art history, art technology, visual analysis and visual perception research. This poster presents ongoing research withing the project 'Recipes and Realities, An Analysis of Texture Rendering in Still-Life Painting and the Pictorial Procedures of Willem Beurs' (NICAS-funded at Utrecht University, Technical University Delft, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Mauritshuis The Hague).
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Why is it important?
The book by Willem Beurs, contemporary treatises and, of course, the still-life paintings themselves, can give a deeper understanding of the pictorial abbreviations needed to render reality in painting. To study these, explains to us how paintings were (and can be) made.
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On the poster, some aspects of the 17th-century colour formula as given by Willem Beurs was demonstrated. Knowing this formula and the accompanying instructions is crucial for understanding the illusionary quality in contemporary painting. It emerged from the urge to render reality as best as possible with materials that were limited available and costly.
Lisa Wiersma
Universiteit Utrecht
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This page is a summary of: Abstracts from the 5th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Art & Perception, December 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22134913-00002099.
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