Verrottingsproces van een appel
Verrottingsproces van een appel
Verrottingsproces van een appel
By Peter Hoogland
Verrottingsproces van een appel
Verrottingsproces van een appel
Verrottingsproces van een appel
This seven-part work of glazed stoneware and chamotte clay shows seven stages of an apple rotting. It is one of several works by Peter Hoogland that are based around fruit; in another series, the Haarlem artist shows how a pear grows from small to large, and eventually rots and shrinks. These are seemingly small, playful themes, but art history includes lots more similar images of fruit, isolated in refined still lifes. Paul Cézanne could spend weeks on a still life of just a few fruits; in his later years, Jacobus van Looy painted almost nothing but the pears and apples in his own garden; and Edgar Degas once deemed a painting of a pear by his colleague Manet to, ‘cause every painting of a deity to pale in comparison’. In addition to these fruit works, Hoogland mostly makes abstract or semi-abstract work.