Pan is Dead (still life)' shows a sculpted head of Pan next to white gloves and a glass vase filled with white roses. The literary title evokes notions of mythology and the spiritual power of nature. The painting highlights George W. Lambert's interest in the appearance of objects rendered in paint, as opposed to the reality of those objects. Pan's massive head and fragile flowers illustrate his research: the sculpted curls of Pan's hair resemble the rose flowers, sharply defined to create this conflict between perception and reality.
The work was painted in response to Lambert's performance of Pan in the play 'The Awakening of Pan' (1909), for which he made a head of Pan out of clay modelled on his own appearance, adding horns and curls characteristic of the allegorical figure. It is the plaster cast of this clay head that is depicted in this painting.
George Lambert (Kent, United Kingdom, 1700 - Covent Garden, London, 30 November 1765) was an English landscape artist and theatre painter. He is considered a pioneer of the British landscape in art.
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