When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Damien Mammoliti Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting.

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still ...

There’s a whimsical element in Liese Chavez’s paintings. A woman is baking a pie, but there’s feathers next to the pie, or a woman is holding a pear in her hand, but the pear is a house with a smoking ...

In 2021, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art welcomed the donation of seventeen works of art created by Chuzo Tamotzu (1888–1975), an American artist born in Japan, through the generosity of Helena Katz ...

“Tea at Smith,” watercolor, by Nava Grunfeld. The title of Grunfeld’s exhibit, “Lit From Within,” comes from her technique for painting still lifes, which involves a process of layering transparent ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

In the world of Zheng Fenglin’s painting, elements of Dutch Golden Age still lifes, Surrealism, and Eastern philosophy blend together seamlessly, creating a tapestry of symbolism and quiet reflection.

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the very ...

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

Weber, Bruce, "The Heart of the matter: the still lifes of Marsden Hartley," New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2003, fig. 8. Baker, John, "Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in American Still Life, ...

Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke, "American Still-Life Painting," New York: Praeger, 1971. Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Reality of Appearance: the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting," ...

Art Reach of Mid Michigan will host a creative happy hour on Fridays each week. This unique opportunity proves an experience designed by different art mediums: On the first Friday, there will be still ...