still life

Still life photographs or paintings are just a arrangement of objects, which typically include fruits and flowers. They also include objects which contrast with the fruits and flowers like glass bowls and vases.

Marion Buccella, kitchen still life.
Marion Buccella, vintage still life.

Marion Buccella paints many different still life scenes, with garden objects and flowers. Also stuff like kitchen utensils and foods. She also does vintage still life which includes things like old books, candles, feathers and ink. These different paintings could relate to things like meals in the kitchen for the kitchen still life paintings and also authors in the vintage still life paintings.

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Richard Kuiper, plastic still life.

This Dutch still life painter decided to do something different to using the normal still life objects, by using all the usual objects but made in plastic. This relates and draws out attention to the every day and over use of plastic and how many things are made with plastic in the modern world.

Last Meal on Death Row, Texas ยท Mat Collishaw
Mat Collishaw, last meal on death row.
Mat Collishaw - Last Meal on Death Row, Dobie Gillis Williams, 2012
Mat Collishaw, last meal on death row.

This photographer created a series of photos which were all using last meals on death row. He used old plates, cups etc to mix the idea of the modern-age with vintage items. These photos, although they do not seem it are actually based on real last meals from death row inmates before they were executed.

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