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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Minimalist
Garden Pots / oil on canvas still life colorplay
Located in Burlingame, CA
Garden pots in bright colors by Mary Robertson whose still life paintings are celebrated and enjoyed worldwide. Wayne Thiebaud said of her work, "Mary Robertson’s joyous and meditati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saran
Located in Atlanta, GA
After graduating with degrees in philosophy and Spanish, Brendan moved to Paris to teach languages. There, at the age of twenty-two, he first picked up a pencil and began teaching hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Penn
Located in Atlanta, GA
After graduating with degrees in philosophy and Spanish, Brendan moved to Paris to teach languages. There, at the age of twenty-two, he first picked up a pencil and began teaching hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Belgium Contemporary Art by Corine Lescope - Canyon de Chine
Located in Paris, IDF
Hand signed on the back
Visual artist in oil painting & calligraphy, Corine Lescop has been working on Chinese paper for almost 30 years. She uses Chinese brushes in particular and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
Vintage Indigo, flower painting , mixed media still life contemporary painting
By Lisa House
Located in Deddington, GB
Lisa House – Contemporary Artist – Northeast – UK
Vintage Indigo
Still Life – Flower Collection 2018
Original oils on board
40 x 40 cm x 5 cm depth
This painting is very heavily textured using oil paint, wax and mixed media.
My still life paintings often appear in isolation, as do my focal points in my landscape work.
I am interested in creating spacial quality through my work and to do this I often keep them quite minimal.
I use a lot of vintage fabrics...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Belgium Contemporary Art by Corine Lescope - Blue Mountain
Located in Paris, IDF
Hand signed on the back
Visual artist in oil painting & calligraphy, Corine Lescop has been working on Chinese paper for almost 30 years. She uses Chinese brushes in particular and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Inter-Relation Selfie 207, representational work on paper, gun with flowers
By Seongmin Ahn
Located in New York, NY
Seongmin Ahn
Inter-Relation Selfie 207
2015
Ink and color on mulberry paper
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The essence of Ahn's work begins from the conception of complicated personal struggles as a spouse, an immigrant and an outsider artist in New York. Through creating process, she contemplate both her daily issues and fundamental matters, thus transferring those into physical representation while asking meaningful questions to her audiences about life as reality, relation between people, spiritual being and transcendence.
Ahn is interested in pushing boundaries of traditionalism, thus opening up new dialogue in global context. Through this dialogue she encourage her audience to think about inter-connectedness between tradition and contemporary, West and East, and two contradictory elements. Contradiction, and Paradox is also a main key to understand her works.
She uses iconography from Minhwa, Korean folk...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mulberry Paper
Diet Coke
Located in Atlanta, GA
After graduating with degrees in philosophy and Spanish, Brendan moved to Paris to teach languages. There, at the age of twenty-two, he first picked up a pencil and began teaching hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Desk Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
Francesca Fuchs
Desklamp, 2017
acrylic on canvas over board
16 x 22 1/4 in (40.6 x 56.5 cm)
This work is from a series called How to Tell the Truth and Painting. In How to Tell the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Mr. And Mrs.
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "Mr. And Mrs.", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 33 x 28 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2017
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Blue, Black, Green, Purple
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Soft Light, European contemporarystyle interior bedroom painting, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a stunning elegant, colourful and textured oil painting. Ekaterina Popova's intimate rooms series capture the light subtleties and feelings of romantic contentment.
Artist ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Homage to Chanel - 2 - (4" x 5.8", Black And White, Chanel Art)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
An homage to the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. Textured elements add visual interest to this mixed media artwork on board. Delicate detail compliments the black and white contrast wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Paper
For Quinn: Earth, Sky, Fly
By Arin Waddell
Located in Denver, CO
Using allegory, icon, and metaphor, Waddell, composes still lifes of found objects that weave sharp and cunning narratives-meditations about the current state of the political climat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Color Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Abraham Dayan - Les Marguerites
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on bottom right front
Born in 1960 in Casablanca, Morocco
Lives & works in Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Bold strokes, rich textures and a brave use of color are hallmarks of this young Frenchman, Abraham Dayan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cone No 5: Sister Twin
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Cone No 5: Sister Twin' from Kim Frohsin's important and historic Cautionary Tales series series of 2015. Twin Sister Cone is one of about 15 "portraits of construction cones by Fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board, Pigment
In and On
By Jake Fischer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on panel
My current body of work is an investigation of the relationship between the tangible and intangible moments in the context of everyday life experience; where the tangi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Rythmic Monsoon Ride, City Life, Heavy Rain, Acrylic, Green, Yellow "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Bothe - Rythmic Monsoon Ride - 24 x 30 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Somnath Bothe's creations represent a beautiful blend of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still-life Oil Painting -- Apricot Vase
By Tina Lincer
Located in Troy, NY
This still life painting on canvas is achieved with oils. It focuses on a handful of flowers, almost abstract in their shape, that are held by an apricot colored vase. The interplay ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Moses" Oil Painting 51"x83"inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Moses" Oil Painting 51"x83"inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magma135, Still Life Painting, Acrylic & Pigment on canvas, Red, Black"In Stock"
By Madhu Basu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhu Basu - Magma 135 - 45.25 X 32 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic and Pigment on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Vessels and pots being of importance in Madhu Basu's...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Magma 115, Utensils, Still Life Painting, Acrylic & Pigment on canvas "In Stock"
By Madhu Basu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhu Basu - Magma 115 - 45.25 X 32 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic and Pigment on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : The pigment technique is today the essential...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
TOP OF THE HILL
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed on front by the artist. Original oil on masonite painting. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Dinner Plate 2 - 8"x10", Still Life Painting On Canvas, Muted Green, White
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil, Pencil, Acrylic, Paper
"Giverny XVII", Contemporary, Oil Painting, Canvas, Waterscape, Impressionist
By Jill Hackney
Located in St. Louis, MO
2x 30" x 40" panels
"A native of New Orleans, Jill Hackney studied painting at The Cleveland Institute of Art and Louisiana State University, where she earned her BFA. She is a foun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Studio
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Panel
Face No. 319, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi color, including mainly indigo and tan with orange. Acrylic on paper, 14 x 11 inches (unframed). Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Ceramics - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Ceramics is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2006.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was born in Helon...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green White Blooming Flowers Painting Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60WX40H
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green White Blooming Flowers Painting Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60WX40H
Collector's Edition Embellished Art Canvas Giclee With Brushstrokes and rich texture.
State-of-the-art HA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
"Awakening", Expressive and textured large oil painting, bold colors, Bedroom
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a stunning elegant, colourful and textured oil painting. Ekaterina Popova's series titled "In the Bedroom" captures the light subtleties and f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Lady From Shanghai
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Lady From Shanghai", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015
Colors: Red, Yellow, O...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Romantic Peony Shabby Chic Pink Gray Mixed Medium on Canvas 36x48"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork:
Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Mixed Media
Kleiderbügel
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker
Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm
The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change.
Fides Becker (* 1962) developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors, and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present, and personal and collective images.
Fides Becker (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Dinner Plate 1 - 8"x10", Still Life Painting, Muted Green, White, Beige
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Paper, Pencil
Simply Spring
By Lisa Elley
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ~ Aristotle I love a classic floral painting, and here is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Light / oil painting - realism celebrating natures abstract qualities
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Morning Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting refere...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Still Life, Jug, Etching on paper, Green, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Atin Basak
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atin Basak - Untitled - 19.5 x 21 inches (unframed size)
Etching on Paper
Inclusive of hipment in roll form.
Style : Atin Basak says that his recent body of work represents the be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
"Goldfinch with Sunflower", green, yellow, finch, bird, acrylic, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s "Goldfinch with Sunflower" is part of a series of oil and acrylic paintings celebrating the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the natural world. A bright yellow finch bird...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Blue Urn
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Blue Urn", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2009
Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Blackjack in Las Vegas -- Original Oil Painting -- Please watch attached video
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is abso...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bright Light / oil painting on panel, eucalyptus leaves - abstract realism
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bright Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting referencing dried eucalyptus leaves that the artist piled up in her studio and studied under a variety of natural and man-made lighting arrangements, as well as at various times of day and night. Oil on panel with natural alabaster ground into the pigments. The painting celebrates natures abstract qualities with a realist's approach.
Peek has floated tulips, roses and other flowers and leaves from 17th century still life paintings through the dark smoky atmosphere of her paintings of night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Inter-Relation Selfie 208, representational work on paper, gun with flowers
By Seongmin Ahn
Located in New York, NY
Seongmin Ahn
Inter-Relation Selfie 208
2015
Ink and color on mulberry paper
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The essence of Ahn's work begins from the conception of complicated personal struggles as a spouse, an immigrant and an outsider artist in New York. Through creating process, she contemplate both her daily issues and fundamental matters, thus transferring those into physical representation while asking meaningful questions to her audiences about life as reality, relation between people, spiritual being and transcendence.
Ahn is interested in pushing boundaries of traditionalism, thus opening up new dialogue in global context. Through this dialogue she encourage her audience to think about inter-connectedness between tradition and contemporary, West and East, and two contradictory elements. Contradiction, and Paradox is also a main key to understand her works.
She uses iconography from Minhwa, Korean folk...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mulberry Paper
The Language of Flowers and Silent Things — horizontal
Located in Burlingame, CA
The Language of Flowers and Silent Things — in four parts with luminous oil on linen. Each panel is 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Hanging the four paintings in a row with 1 inch between each canvas, the overall dimension is 25 1/2 x 81 inches. Drama and depth at play in this sophisticated painting in aubergine and plum on natural raw Belgian linen. Thin layers of oil paint, create a shimmering and provocative work that shimmers and changes with the light of day and differing seasons.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California's Bay Area. Like Gerhard Richter, with a background in hyperrealism and shift into abstraction, Choisel is taking us — the viewers of his work — along with him on a visceral journey.
Beautiful, rich, highest quality materials used throughout. Artist signed, titled and dated verso. Condition excellent. The four paintings can hang in a quad as pictured or four in a row...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Purple Flowers Still Life Rustic Painting Art Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Purple Flowers Still Life Rustic Painting Art Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45"
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
Each limited e...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Sage Composition -contemporary black and green leafs inkjet print on paper
By Hugh Turvey
Located in London, GB
Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery.
Hugh trained as a designer /...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
Homage to Chanel - (4" x 5.8", Black And White, Chanel Art)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
An homage to the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. Textured elements add visual interest to this mixed media artwork on board. Delicate detail compliments the black and white contrast wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Dinner Plate 3 - 8"x10", Still Life Painting On Canvas, Neutral, White
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Oranges - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 1998
Located in Roma, IT
Oranges is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 19998.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was born in Helon...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Strawberries - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Strawberries is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2008.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was born in H...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Majesty White Black Floral Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 40H X 60W
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Majesty White Black Floral Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 40H X 60W
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY REA...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Drift
Located in Burlingame, CA
Transparent beach ball adrift in a pool by Diana Tremaine whose dynamic oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning in the human experience. She develops brushstrokes and ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting of bouquet of flowers on rice paper: 'Chinese Red'
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rice Paper
Painting of bouquet of flowers on fabric and rice paper: 'Blue Table'
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Rice Paper
Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Still Life Flower Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Radiance
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Still Life Flower Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Radiance
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Painting of flowers on canvas: 'Green Backyard'
Located in New York, NY
‘Starting with a drawing of "real" flowers, I create layers of thinly veiled surfaces. They become abstracted through the process of multiple printings. The essence of flowers become...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life Flower Painting Art Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Dream Nature
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Still Life Flower Painting Art Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Dream Nature
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Breakfast - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Breakfast is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2007.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was born in Helo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ink on paper "Lost and Found #18"
Located in New York, NY
11"x14" pen and ink painting on paper with depicting a flower and vines with planks of wood with nails and a defined wood grain. This drawing pairs elemen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.