Still life belongs to one of the traditional types of painting. The literal translation of the term, especially the uninitiated, may make you shudder. The word is German and literally means dead or dead nature. Since apples, pears, plums or other fruits are no longer on the tree, but on the table, on the platter, not to mention the game – that is exactly killed and cooked in some way. The presence of a person is not required here, it is implied.
But in the picture of the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha “Fruits” there is one and the other: pears, apples, and especially grapes, hanging from the hands of a charming woman. She looks at us insolently, a little defiantly and haughtily – it is felt that she knows her worth. Hair tangled in a violent flavor. The picture would have had a different name – “Bacchae”.
Very much resembles the person depicted here of the servants of Dionysus, the same freestyle, liberated, seductive and busty, in a word, born to drive men crazy. And fruit only emphasizes its naturalness, its connection with the earth, the soil. And what is traditionally called hair, in fact, very much like leaves and grass.
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