03 — ARTWORK
Garland of Flowers with St Anthony of Padua
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas
- TYPE
- Still-Life
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1051 × 800 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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Pérez differed from other flower specialists in being an able figure painter who probably painted his own figures in the centre of many of his floral garlands. This skill would help to explain his very inventive attitude to garland paintings. In this painting he represents the figure of saint as realistic-looking unframed easelStand on which a painting is supported while the artist works on it. The oldest representation of an easel is on an Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom (c. 2600-2150 BC). Renaissance illustrations of the artist at work show all kinds of contrivances, the commonest being the three-legged easel with pegs, such as we still use today. Light folding easels were not made until the 18th and 19th centuries, when painters took to working out of doors. The studio easel, a 19th-century invention, is a heavy piece of furniture, which runs on castors or wheels, and served to impress the c1ients of portrait painters. Oil painters need an easel which will support the canvas almost vertically or tip it slightly forward to prevent reflection from the wet paint, whereas the watercolourist must be able to lay his paper nearly flat so that the wet paint will not run down. The term 'easel-painting' is applied to any picture small enough to have been painted on a standard easel. paintings and in this way enhances the realismRealism (with an upper case "R"), also known as the Realist school, denotes a mid-nineteenth century art movement and style in which artists discarded the formulas of Neoclassicism and the theatrical drama of Romanticism to paint familiar scenes and events as they actually looked. Typically it involved some sort of sociopolitical or moral message, in the depiction of ugly or commonplace subjects. One of the main representatives and spokesmen was the painter Gustave Courbet. In the dispute about ways to represent reality, Realism rebelled against the idealistic and classicist tendencies in painting. of the flowers that decorate it.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Garland of Flowers with St Anthony of Padua by PÉREZ, Bartolomé},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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urldate = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
