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Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
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.).
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 Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes (F382) was Van Gogh's opportunity to explore Blanc's recommendation about combining colors: "If one brings together sulfur (yellow) and garnet (dark red), which is its exact opposite, being equidistant from nasturtium (orange) and campanula (blue-mauve), the garnet and sulfur will excite one ...
Beginning in the Renaissance [5] drawing the figure from life has been considered the best way to learn how to draw, and the practice has been maintained into the present. Different drawing techniques and exercises have become standard, including gesture, contour, and mass drawings. For beginners first learning to draw, learning to correctly ...
Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren or Abraham van Beyeren [1] (c. 1620, The Hague – March 1690, Overschie ()) was a Dutch Baroque painter of still lifes. Little recognized in his day and initially active as a marine painter, he is now considered one of the most important painters of still lifes, and still lifes of fish and so-called 'pronkstillevens', i.e. sumptuous still lifes of luxurious objects.
Still Life (Braque, 1911) Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks; Still Life of Fruit and Dead Fowl; Still Life of Fruit, Dead Birds, and a Monkey; Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar; Still Life with a Guitar; Still Life with a Parrot; Still Life with a Peacock; Still Life with a Poem; Still Life with a Silver Jug; Still Life with a Sketch ...
Still Life with Cake is an early 19th century still life painting by Raphaelle Peale. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 756.