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2 Norah McGuiness: 3 Roderic O’Connors’:
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to be decoded by the educated In Ireland still life has had a re-
observer. In France, the still life vival and is as popular now as it
was not valued much at first, but was in the 18th century.
in the middle of the 18th centu-
ry, it reached its climax through Still-life paintings related to food
the works of Siméon Chardin. are always at the forefront in Irish
After this golden age of still-life art galleries. Artists including
paintings, the genre lost in pop- Charles Brady and his Japanese
ularity. At the end of the 19th Pear 1 , Norah McGuinness and
century, however, realists and her “Still Life with Strawberries
impressionists rediscovered the on Garden Table” 2 and Roderic
genre. At this time, many obser- O‘Connors’ work 3 can be seen
vations of nature were depicted in the National Gallery where the
with deep allegorical meanings. students got their inspiration for
their art work when visiting in
February 2018.
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