The landscape of Still seí i/s /oo& again at Still Life which are placed right next to the base of the with Blue Pot this time without white pot, sitting atop the white cloth with regard for the possible personal meanings, its red stripe. Two of those three apples sit biographical resonances, iconography, or right in front of the white pot, and one of inventory of its objects. This time let us read them is placed at its side, forming a sort of its formal logic, its spatial relations, its bridge or stepping stone between white pot passages from object to object. This time let and milk jug, a kind of boulder in the little us take quite a bit longer and exercise more ravine that is opened up between those two patience. And this time let us journey through objects (detail 2). On the other side of the it as if it were a kind of geography, a still life white pot, the unguarded side open to the that invites the viewer's imaginative entrance space at the right edge of the image, at into it like a landscape with a road winding a slightly, but only slightly, greater distance, its way from front to back and soliciting we find a fourth apple, this one nestled the vicarious traveler's wandering eye. Let us in the multicolored tapestry, right at the understand it as a landscape that plots its juncture between the napkin and the tapes- course, again, through the painter's studio try, opening up a sort of valley out of which while suggesting another opening onto the issues a waterfall of white cloth. world outside, another kind of association Together these four simple apples serve with the plein air motif. several not-so-simple purposes. First, they Seven apples, or perhaps eight, are double the volume of the white pot with their arranged before, behind, and around a white own volumes, marking, with their own round- pot, found roughly in the center of the com- nesses, the imaginary passage from side to position. There are seven or perhaps eight front to side that describes the white pot in red-gold, roughly spherical objects, three of the round, indexing its projection with their 45
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