Still life

In Self Portrait, Leyster exhibits the still life that is common in the Northern/Dutch Baroque period emphasizing on color and light. Leyster was best known for her happy scenes of couples, families, and Dutch social life, painted her subjects enjoying themselves through common everyday activities. Leyster’s painting displayed this and also shows a similarity in herself with the violinist in the background, both painted to display their profession and the simple enjoyment they both had in it.…

still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…

Art Analysis Still Life with Skull by Paul Cezanne Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with a Skull is a piece of work that features a skull, fruits, and a piece of white cloth placed on a table and features a dark background. The artists seems to have created depth of perspective and space using planes of color through contrast. The work represents an essential and powerful link between the materialistic artistic movement of expressionism and the ephemeral features of Impressionism. It was done in the…

work of “Still of Life”. 2 The artwork is not covered in these group of artist is the subject matter. The details about form of historical and cultural perspective is not discussed in of the analysis of describing the drawings or materials at all. The work of art that the author incorporates the line on straight ledge drawing, with dark colors showing on the body. The picture in the front…

are the ordinary everyday life and very familiar for me but I have never thought differently. Author Kathleen Stewart is trying to use different vignettes to show how we can think deeply of ordinary everyday life and shift our practical knowledges of intimate experiences. Stewart thinks that ordinary affects can affect the everyday life and gives it the quality of a continual motion of relations, scenes, contingencies and emergences. Many people repeat their everyday life, repeat it again and…

represent it. Still lifes were a great way for painters to showcase their skills in painting texture and surfaces in great detail along with realistic lighting effects. Osias Beert’s painting Still- Life with Various Vessels on a Table uses these techniques and focuses on the prosperity that trade brings to the country and the food for a higher standing, whereas Pieter Claesz’s Still Life with Wine-Goblet and Oysters focuses on simplicity and the simple meals found on all tables. Beert’s still…

debate on capital punishment. The two sides of article are based on justice, cost and effectiveness. The idea of justice on the capital punishment has two sides. The first one which supports the death penalty. According to the article “Life in Prison Is Still Life: Why Should a Killer Live?” (Barton) the justice her wants the…

Case Study Still life is one of the principal genres of Western art. It is art depicting inanimate subject matter, e.g. fruit, flowers and household objects which are usually arranged on a table top or surrounded with fabric. This genre of painting allows for artists to explore their relationship with everyday objects; many still lives have symbolic meanings, revealing stories or ideas. More commonly, the status of the painter (or the buyer of the art, if such is being made for a specific…

Living Still Life, painted by Salvador Dali in 1956, is an oil on canvas painting created to express the dynamic combination and complexity of stillness and motion that goes almost unnoticed every day. Viewers are drawn in to observe the masterpiece initially by the bright red, mellow blue, and vibrant red colors used in the scenic view painted before them. In essence, the painting is of a medium length rectangular, wooden table partially extending from a room inside of an apartment or condo,…

Tom Wesselman, Still Life No. 35, 1963 Erik Bulatov, Glory to the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of…