Flower Still-Life with Curtain
by SPELT, Adrian van der, Oil on wood, 46,5 x 63,9 cm
Optical illusionistic effects were intended by a number of 17th-century Dutch still-life painters with their “paintings of paintings”, where a curtain, draped aside, seems to be hanging in front of a painting. This genre of still-life was known as a “bedriegertje” (little trickster).
Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 7 minutes):
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, ballet suite, op. 71, Waltz of the Flowers