Still life paintings depict collections of inanimate objects arranged together. They allow viewers to see everyday objects in a new light by capturing them in specific arrangements and through the use of light, shades, and colors. Important early examples include works from the 16th century Dutch painter Georg Flegel and 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, while Paul Cezanne produced influential still life works in the 19th century. Artists use techniques like modulating light and dark values and tints or shades of color to realistically depict volume and reflect light in the objects.
2. What is it?
• Still life is defined as a collection of inanimate
objects arranged together in a specific way.
• The magic of still life paintings is that they
can show us a new way of looking at the
ordinary objects around us. Once they are
placed into a specific arrangement and then
captured in paint, the light and and shades.
8. Techniques
• In order to reflect light and create volume in the fruit we can
follow this example:
Look carefully at the light and dark parts and look
at how the coloured pencil is used.
