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Still Life: This Classic Painting Genre Continues To Endure
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By Lauren Gee
” Still life is the touchstone of painting “
Édouard Manet
With the earliest known examples existing amongst frescoes uncovered at Pompeii, the still life has been a staple of artistic production for centuries. Derived from the Flemish ‘stillleven’ during the Dutch Golden Age of the mid Seventeenth century the genre was practised at that time to show the surge in cultural and economic prominence of the burgeoning mercantile nation. Still life painting flowered as a means to show the achievements, but also transience, of ordinary human life. The genre also enabled artists to demonstrate their virtuosity in the depiction of finely crafted goods, which were increasingly emblematic of the emergent middle class’ lifestyle. The still life, also called ‘nature morte’ in French has also been used as a vanitas device – a means to show the fleeting temporality of human existence and as a reflection on the vices and virtues of life. It was represented as a class of painting unto itself in the various official salon exhibitions of Europe during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, but despite the breakdown of the official art
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10 Wellknown Still Authenticated Artists senior the Twentieth Century
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Since ancient times artists have portrayed arrangements of inanimate objects. However, still-life painting turned into an independent genre until the late 16th century when Flemish and Dutch artists captured intricate compositions of everyday objects. In the early days of the art form, these scenes were used to represent prosperity and were also infused with religious symbols. Over time the genre became popular across Europe and the US and took many shapes and forms. In this post, we explore the work of 20 artists that excelled in the genre.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Caravaggio is famous for the intense realism of his large-scale religious and mythological works and his volatile character. He is also celebrated for his use of the chiaroscuro technique. Even if his life was brief, Caravaggio influenced the artists of his time and later art movements, mainly Baroque art and 19th-century Realism. The painting we see here is attributed to the artist’s hand and is only one of the two still life scenes linked to him (the other one is Basket of Fruit). Contrary to other of Caravaggio’s artworks, where dramatic light contrasts are the common feature, here a uniform light covers the composition populated by an arrangement of fruits and vegetables that bears a