AFTER JUAN SANCHEZ COTAN
Juan Sanchez Cotan was born (or baptized) on 25 June 1560 in Orgaz. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish artists enthusiastically copied his still-lives, and their distinctive style and composition continue to influence artists today. His name is synonymous with still life. Not only was he one of the first true still-life painters in Europe and arguably Spain’s greatest, he may even have invented the bodegón, a distinctly Spanish version where objects are not necessarily symbolic but appear to assert lives of their own. (Bodegones) referred to a rustic eating place. Sánchez Cotán painted all of his known bodegones between about 1600 and 1603 when still life was a very new genre. European artists had painted arrangements of fruits, flowers, tableware, dead animals, et al from at least the 14th century, but only to decorate or support various compositions, never as a main subject. Now, after years have passed, I tried to recreate his works in the present time by looking at the general style of his works in terms of color, light, and composition, but from different angles and with different lighting.
Juan Sanchez Cotan Paintings Used As Reference
AFTER JUAN SANCHEZ COTAN
