Still Life with Apples and Flowers
In Still Life with Apples and Flowers, Alvi Siren creates a layered tabletop composition where fruit, flowers, vessels, and background merge into an expressive field of colour. Red apples rest on a shallow plate at the front of the scene, while green apples and a pale rounded fruit sit nearby, their forms arranged across a softly abstract green table.
The lower part of the painting is grounded by the fruit. The red apples are painted with warm crimson, rose, and pale highlights, standing out against the cooler plate and green surface beneath them. Around the plate, green apples and a pale pear-like form introduce softer yellow-green tones, balancing the intensity of the red fruit.
To the right, a small vase holds bold red, white, and pink flowers, their petals painted with energetic strokes that give the bouquet a lively, textured presence. Behind the table, two larger floral arrangements rise into the upper part of the painting, extending beyond the horizon-like division between table and background. These flowers appear partially dissolved into blue, green, violet, and red passages, giving the still life a dreamlike, atmospheric quality.
The composition is structured by a strong horizontal line, yet the surrounding space remains fluid and abstract. The table is not sharply defined, and the background opens into a field of cool turquoise light and darker floral shadows. This contrast between stable objects and shifting atmosphere gives the painting its distinctive rhythm.
Rather than a conventional still life, Still Life with Apples and Flowers becomes an expressive meditation on arrangement, colour, and suspended space. Through red apples, green fruit, vivid blossoms, and an abstracted horizon, Alvi Siren transforms the tabletop into a luminous scene where fruit and flowers seem to hover between interior stillness and garden-like movement.
ID 121
Medium: oil on cardboard, framed
Cardboard width: 59 cm
Cardboard height: 42 cm
Frame width: 65 cm
Frame height: 48 cm
Year: 2004
Location: held in private collection















