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Fruit and Flowers by Leon Joseph Hartl

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Fruit and Flowers by Leon Joseph Hartl

More than a dozen species of fruit and flowers are mounded on a bed of grass. The painting's upper half, a skillfully mottled background, is crucial for establishing the space necessary to make sense of the lower half--without it, those objects flatten into a wallpaper. Stalks of wheat and the greenery of flowers likewise sketch out spatial coordinates within which the brightly colored icons acquire mass.

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