A cascade of visual delight!
“Cherries and Viburno” by Clara von Sivers, German (1854-1924) painted, 1890
A beautiful cascade of green foliage, delicate white balls of Viburnum flowers, contrasting with the hanging lush ripe red cherry fruits plucked gathered and spilling out of the tipped-up rustic blue glazed cherry bowl to the ground with a smattering of cherry petals. The highlighted white contrasts with the regressive darker shades of deep blue, especially with the white flower hanging into the bowl partly in shadow. The luscious ripe cherries are sensual and mouth-watering, some plucked and gathered while others are eaten straight from the tree with the potential pleasures and delights to come, perhaps a cherry pie!
The tall thin format of the painting accentuates the downward fall and flow of the composition. The lower cherries with their curving, twisting, dancing stalks add a lively dynamic to the flat plane of the ground directed towards us, the viewer.
The welcome flowering in the spring elicits a tantalising suggestion of the longed-for warmth of summer to come and the joys and hopes for the future.
LOVE ART, LOVE LIFE. Talking Art with Paul Woods
