{"product_id":"de-bie-natura-morta","title":"Eugène De Bie - Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"Still Life\" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the \"Still Life\" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis work is extremely representative of the style of painter Eugène De Bie, for whom even a traditional genre like still life becomes a pretext for unleashing this artist's unbridled imagination. In this still life, the elements chosen as subjects are grotesque, and the final result is an extremely eccentric composition, modulated in a fantastical and baroque dimension. Formally, De Bie accommodates the complexity of his subjects by placing them in an extremely complex space, which allows for no point of reference. Finally, the composition is extremely elaborate, vibrant with a dynamic pictorialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eEugène De Bie was born in 1914 in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium, and died in 1983 in Quimper. He trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he excelled. His teacher was the impetuous Van Haelen, and he also had contacts with Anto Carte, James Ensor, Constant Permeke, and Léon Devos, with whom he was invited on several occasions to exhibit as part of the Nervia group. He soon became friends with the sculptor Victor Rousseau, then director of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. He then completed his training for two years in Paris at the École du Louvre, where he practiced copying the old masters. In 1947, he settled briefly in Brittany. In 1960, he returned to Belgium, dividing his time between his Belgian and Breton studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cogorni Patrizia Maria Albina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217770361218,"sku":"ACOG001","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/IMG-3110-copia-scaled.jpg?v=1768468303","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/de-bie-natura-morta","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}