What Is Still Life?
Still Life is a genre of art used to picture inanimate subjects, normally a smaller group of inanimate subjects. Still life usually uses fruit, flower and objects. Still life also shows objects from the natural or man made world. There are many artists of this still life genre including Pieter Claesz and Paulette Tavormina.
The artist which made this work is called Pieter Claesz, Pieter Claesz is a Dutch painter born in 1597 and died in January 1661. These paintings are in the genre of Still Life and are mainly based on the colours brown, white and green.
Timeline Of Still Life
Still life art has existed since the 17th century onwards, But in the 19th century Still Life changed because artists created photography as a new normal for still life art, to express their thoughts in a new and different way, and that is where still life photography was begun.
- The first piece of evidence that we have of still life photography was in 1839 when the first ever image with still objects in it.
- In the early 19th century, the art genre of modernism came into photography. An example of somebody who did modernist still life photography is Man Ray.
- In the 21st century contemporary still life photography was introduced and many photographers are still working on this today continuing the tradition of Man Ray.
Good start but try to add a more thorough investigation, making sure you answer all the questions from the task listed on the blog (see below):
-Define what still life is and give brief history
-Show examples of still life painting and photography
-Include specific artist references and choose one image for analysis using matrix
-Provide a chronological timeline of still life photography
-Then Answer:
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What is Memento Mori?
What kind of metaphors and symbols are used in still life and why? (Include connections to trade, slavery, colonialism, wealth, status…)