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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 paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings made during Vincent van Gogh's early artistic career. Most still lifes made in the Netherlands are dated from 1884 to 1885, when he lived in Nuenen .
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.
Creating life drawings, or life studies, in a life class, has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance. A figure drawing may be a composed work of art or a figure study done in preparation for a more finished work, such as a painting. [ 1 ] :
Still Life with a Sketch after Delacroix [2] is an oil painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. The undated work is thought to have been painted during the artist's 1887 stay in Martinique . It was bequeathed to the Strasbourg museum by Raymond Koechlin [ fr ] (of the Koechlin family ) in 1931 and is now on display in the Musée d'Art ...
Van Thiel has ascribed new meaning to the painting: he stated that the ledgers are not actually books, but they are files. Unlike most scholarly books, files hold practical information like records. Ledgers occasionally appear in still life paintings but they are never featured so prominently as the main focus of a painting.
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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.