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Still Life

Still Life

A "still life painting" typically comprises an arrangement of objects (such as flowers or any group of mundane objects) laid out on a table. It derives from the Dutch word 'Stilleven', a term used in 17th century Dutch painting to describe pictures previously entitled 'Fruit' or 'Flower Pieces'. A form of still life painting that contains biblical or moral messages, is known as Vanitas painting - as practiced by exponents of Dutch Realism like Harmen van Steenwyck (1612-56), Pieter Claesz (1597-1660), Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-83), Willem Kalf (1622-93) and Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1681).

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Famous Still Life Paintings

 

Still life painting by Caravaggio

Basket of Fruit, painted around 1599, is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

 

 

The Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet. Bassin Aux Nymphéas (Water Lily Pond; 1919) is one of the series of Water Lilies paintings by French impressionist artist Claude Monet. It is an oil on canvas painting measuring 100x300 cm. It was sold in 2008 for £40.9 million, a record for any of Monet's painting.

 

 

 

The Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne. Basket of Apples is a still life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne. It belongs to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

 

Living Still Life painting by Salvador Dali Nature Morte Vivante or Living Still-life is a painting by the artist Salvador Dalí. Dali painted this piece in 1956, during a period that he called "Nuclear Mysticism". It currently resides at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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