Still life Essays

Still life is objects that are inanimate and cannot move. Still life art is paintings and drawings which are produced by capturing and gathering objects together in a group in an arranged manner. Like; Fruit, Flowers, Household Items and food. The earliest still life was produced by the ancient Egyptians. They used to paint object and food on the tomb walls. Their aim of this was to show what the object clearly was and scenes of everyday life. In the 1800's was considered unimportant as it didn't

showing a reflected image of Claesz himself, painting the still life. Among these goods, Claesz includes several references to death. In the rear right side of the painting is a human skull. Next to it is a glass that’s been tipped over, and right next to that is a cracked open walnut. These all allude to the idea that nothing and no one can last forever, and serves to remind the viewer of life’s inherent transience. The Vanitas Still Life was just one example of the many various artworks that

jan Davidz De Heem “Still life with Flowers in a Glass Vase” Description The piece is a still- life painting of flowers in a glass vase on a stone sheet It was painted by Jan Davidz De Heem in 1650. In the piece, I see multiple brightly coloured flowers in a bouquet, some are standing up straight and some are wilted and falling. Each flower is bright, and their colours make them pop, there is red, white, pink, brown, blue and green. I think that there are some roses, trosnarcis, dormers, tulips and

are used intentionally to give a realistic depiction of life through subjective or objective verisimilitude and/or express an authorial message. Through techniques such as disunity and plot gaps, Lillian Wang illustrates in her art film, Still Life, how the main character is terrified of uncertainty and finds comfort in the repetitive nature of day to day life. Calculated plot gaps play a significant role in establishing the idea that life is filled with uncertainties. This is displayed when the

make a still life a still life. In still life there are many styles, as well as abundance and wealth being re-occurring themes, simplifying objects, or playing with them, their relationships with each other, is a common factor of most. Here in Talbot’s shadow picture we see a very unique flatness – making them (figure 2) appear more abstract, like a scientific study of the subject, the plant almost becomes symbolic in its bold simplicity. This image helps to support my earlier point on the still life

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still life painter (1664-1750) from Amsterdam, specializing in flower paintings. Ruysch was ranked highly, not only by other female painters, but also by male painters, which was unheard of at the time. She was born into a family that allowed for her to flourish as an artist. Her father, Federik Ruysch, was a highly acclaimed professor in botany and anatomy as well as an amateur artist. As a way of documenting and embellishing scientific findings, Federik created a set of

Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, has undergone immense scrutiny since publication. This narrative piece introduced new formal elements that reflected the innovations of literature during the late nineteenth century. One specific element that seems to be of interest to literary critics and analyzers is the use of two narrators in one story. And to add onto this distinctive quality, the storytelling behind Heart of Darkness incorporates both impressionism and symbolism. With

I have chosen is “Work Boots: Still Life” by Jim Daniels. After glancing over it, the short poem is about a pair of work boots beside the screen door. These boots are a symbol to represent the worker doing hard labor. As throughout the short poem gives evidence to that and also shows how the worker feels exhausted. With the Daniels's specific use of simile, metaphor, synecdoche, symbolism and personification, the poem emerges from an allegorical story about the life of a pair of boots to the reveal

paintings. Graham (2000) explains that cardinal Francesco Del Monte desired Caravaggio’s art and commissioned him to do painting for the church Of San Luigi. Caravaggio’s realistic naturalism appeared at the Contarelli chapel where he designed the life of Saint Mathew. His artworks caused public protest due to their dramatic and realistic nature. However, his reputation increased due to such violent criticism. It was unfortunate that Caravaggio faced many problems with the law. He was jailed for

In 1936 Georgia O’Keefe’s used oil on canvas to create a painting titled, “Deer’s Skull with Pedernal.” It was painted in the desert of New Mexico while O’Keefe was living there. It is one of her many works that reflects what she saw during her time there. The first thing the viewer’s eyes are drawn to is the deer’s skull. Skull’s similar to this are also included in “Summer Days” and “Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses.” From the repetition of this element in O’Keefe’s work, it can be concluded that

I decided to study the process of how whisky is made, from start to finish. I visited the local Penderyn distillery, Aberdare situated in Rhondda Cynon Taff on the 2nd October 2014. “In 2007, Penderyn Distillery introduced three new brands: Brecon Five Vodka, Brecon Gin and Merlyn Cream Liqueur. Like Penderyn Single Malt Whisky, all three have won international recognition and are gaining an excellent reputation in the UK and abroad as premium spirits” (Penderyn Whisky, 2008). Whilst there I met

While there are many ways to interpret the art film Still Life by Lillian Wang, I infer that the son died in a car accident at the father’s hands. This film violates many classical storytelling techniques to demonstrate how death affects those who live with their memory. Three especially impactful techniques are nonlinear plot manipulation, loose causality and calculated plot gaps. Nonlinear plot manipulation works in two key ways to further the narrative and thematic meaning of this film. First

The work from the third group, Still Life with Old Shoe by Miro Joan has a style that’s different than the others because this one focuses on surrealism, which involves imaginative ideas that have a psychological attribute in artwork. Their approach is to create a strange dreamlike setting by juxtaposing elements relating to the subject to construct an usual piece that isn 't found in real life. In the image the viewer can see assorted items on a table, involving

1. “Still Life with Iris” is a story about a young girl named Iris who lives in a place called Nocturno, where people have their memories stored in Past Coats and are under the rule of a couple called the Great Goods. The Great Goods want the best of everything so they take Iris away to their home on Great Island taking away her Past Coat leaving her with only one of the buttons off of it. Iris wants to leave Great Island and find the little girl who she believed the button belongs to, so with the

William Kalf (1619-1693) was a great Dutch master who was known for his range of still life paintings ‘Pronkstilleven’, which translates to ‘Ostentatious still life’. This still lifes displayed an array of luxurious possessions that could only reflect the lifestyle of a wealthy human in Holland during the seventeenth century. Venetian glass, Chinese porcelain and Turkish carpets decorated with ornamental gold and silverware were painted as a symbol of status, to be hung in the homes of the wealthy

The Still Life could be interpreted as pure genius and an interesting and realistic view on life, or could be seen as boring and uncreative. Pieter Claesz was special, he added extra meaning to the paintings, not just leaving it as what you see is what you get, but making viewers use their brains to figure out what it’s supposed to mean, which is a great thing, as a common complaint of Still Life is that artists often don’t provide any sort of hidden

were hitting the plane and the pilot said “the engine has blown apart and were going down.” And he said it on the intercom!! Hunter was praying that we don't crash. The flight attendants we're seeing get ready we're going to crash and you need your life jacket because we're going to crash in the ocean. Everyone was freaking out and slamming into each other and not listening why do flight attendants were trying to calm everyone down. The pilot counted down from 5 to zero going at a slow pace “5...

describes and discusses his work, these aspects will incessantly be debated. The Skull of Zurbaran is a complex representation of Salvador Dali’s views of Catholicism, but more specifically the conflict within Dali concerning the continuum of faith, life, and death. Dali provided no commentary on the work with respect to either

In “Still Life in Yellow with Browns and Blacks”, Vievee Francis uses irregular syntax to talk about racism in Texas and the hardships that a black girl faced while living in Texas. The irregular syntax in “Still Life in Yellow with Browns and Blacks” mimics the context of the poem and it also makes the poem more fast-paced. In the lines that Francis chooses to use regular syntactic structures slows the poem down. Throughout the book Francis plays with sentence structure and punctuation as a way

different cultures and backgrounds, making art a powerful means of communication. This is demonstrated by two artists, Paul Cezanne and Pieter Claesz. Cezanne’s “Still Life with Skull” was created from 1896 to 1898 while “Vanitas Still Life” by Pieter Claesz was created in 1635. Both paintings display signs, symbols and genres, such as still life, vanitas and modernism. Paul Cezanne incorporated vanitas symbols such as skulls and wilting flowers to convey this idea. By using these symbols, he was able