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Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man- made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, STILL LIFE AND ITS TIME LINE

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Page 1: Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants,

Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).

STILL LIFE AND ITS TIME LINE

Page 2: Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants,
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With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more freeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscapes or portraiture.

Dante Alighieri, Chapel of the Bargello, Florence 14th century

One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed

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Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted.

Joan of Arc 15th century

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Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer (1502)

Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440 – before 1516), Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets (1504),

During the renaissance time . . .

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Annibale Carracci The Beaneater 1560 - 1609

Annibale Carracci, Butcher's shop 1580

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Rembrandt Geschlachteter Ochse1606 - 1669

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Giovanna Garzoni (1600–1670) Still Life with Bowl of Citrons 1640

Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627), Quince, Cabbage, Melon

and Cucumber (1602

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Clara Peeters (fl. 1607–1621) Vanitas still life 1630

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Willem Claesz. Heda - Still-Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab

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MariaVanOosterwijk

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Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) Attributes of Painting, Sculpture, and

Architecture1769

During the 18 century . . .

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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Sunflowers or Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888

Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Carnations and Clematis in a Crystal Vase 1883

During the 18 century . . .

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Paul Gauguin 1889Still Life with Apples, a Pear, and a Ceramic Portrait Jug

Henri Matisse, Still Life with Geraniums, 1917

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Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Still Life with a Beer Mug 1921

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Picture by drawing machine 1, Desmond Paul Henry, c.1960s

Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

Nowadays . . .

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An example of a Zanelle. Notice the stroke and texture that differentiate it from other forms of

printmaking

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A close up of the details in a Mandelbulb, a three-dimensional analog of the Mandelbrot set. An example

of fractal art

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Irrationnal Geometrics digital art installation 2008 by Pascal Dombis