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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Way still life

Bunch of Grapes, Andrew Way still life painting
Bunch of Grapes, Andrew Way

In the Walters Art Museum. Use “Explore Object” line in upper left of image for zoomable version, or Download link to right. Image can also be viewed in a zoomable version on Google Art Project.

I haven’t seen the original, but my instincts tell me this image may be overly dark (as many museum website photos of artwork seem to be). I’ve taken the liberty of lightening the images above a bit to bring out the underlying red color of the grapes, which is not obvious in the museum’s version of the image.

Way was a Baltimore native who switched his specialty from portraiture to still life. Many of his subjects were of grapes, rendered faithfully as recognizable varieties — in a way, “portraits” of grapes.

I love his sensitive rendering of the grape leaves, especially the one turning brown, and the subtle edges of the shadow that it so integral to his composition.

See my previous Eye Candy post on another still life of grapes in the collection of the Walters Museum.

Bunch of Grapes, Walters Art Museum

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Eye Candy for Today: Way’s grapes

Comments

2 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Way still life”

  1. That’s outstanding art’s. I would never got that this is an art until l I visit googl’s art project. Yo have done a great job!

  2. Hi Andrew, it’s a great creation of art. I really liked the color combination and the way of the design!