Why we love this:
“Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling.”
Chardin said this about his art a couple of hundred years before the Impressionists started banging on about it. Rich and darkly beautiful, we think there’s a decadence to his work: not just in subject, but in the depth and his exquisite use of light.
300 years old and still spellbinding.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin:
Still-Life with Dead Pheasant, 1728
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin:
Still-Life with Dead Pheasant and Hunting Bag, 1760