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Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Montmartre in Paris from the Netherlands. While in Paris, Van Gogh transformed the subjects, color and techniques that he used in creating still life paintings.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
Still Life with Geraniums; Still Life with Ham (Philippe Rousseau) Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut; Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose; Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Glasses; Still Life with Mirror; Still Life with Old Shoe; Still Life with Peaches and Pears; Still Life with Peacocks; Still Life with Pots
When van Gogh created still life paintings he was able to explore light and its effect on colors. A close-up of the bottle in Still Life with Straw Hat reveals that way in which van Gogh used varying shades of the same color to depict how light would fall, or be shaded, in the everyday items he painted from home or the garden. [4]
Still Life with a Turkey Pie is a 1627 still life painting by the Dutch painter Pieter Claesz, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It was in the collection of Baroness Cecilia-Maria van Pallandt at Keukenhof Castle from 1881. Her descendants sold it to the Hague-based art dealer S.Neistad in 1974 for 300,000 guilders.
Still life of game in a forest. Abraham Mignon or Minjon [1] (21 June 1640 – 27 March 1679), was a still life painter. [2] He is known for his flower pieces, still lifes with fruit, still lifes in forests or grottoes, still lifes of game and fish as well as his garland paintings. [3]
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Pronkstilleven (Dutch for 'ostentatious', 'ornate' or 'sumptuous' still life) is a style of ornate still life painting, characterised by large and complex compositions and an elaborate palette. Pronkstillevens typically depict a wide variety of objects, fruits, flowers and inanimate animals, often accompanied by live human and animal figures.