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| Irving Penn, Still Life with Watermelon, 1947 |
Some of Irving Penn's still life photographs feel the smallest bit dated. The color and objects pulling from too specific a time, so that their once timely and daring components now reference the past too much, taking away from their form. But not this image above. This image seems to defy time. It strikes such a deep chord of art history, with references to 17th century feast paintings, and contrasting with that modern, simple shape and color of the watermelon and white background. It is the perfect composition.
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