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The Still Life

Discover the art of still life drawing in the 1640s and explore its origins in history, symbolism, techniques, and composition. Learn about Vanitas paintings, Flemish innovations, and famous artists like Audrey Flack. Follow guidelines for a comprehensive still life project.

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The Still Life

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  1. The Still Life 1640's

  2. Answer the questions on the back of your Still Life drawing • 1- Did you use 3 or more objects?- • 2- Does the drawing fill most of paper? • 3-Did you color all back? Did you accuracy outlined your objects? • 4-Did you show overlapping objects ? • 5—Did you do interesting composition • 6-Did you shading each object and shading each object, shadows of the object, foreground, background or the imaginary shading table? • 7 Did you-use colors – some or more than one. • 8Does the-shading -shows lights darks and mid-tones? • 9- Did you PRINT Your Name and period .on the back, right bottom corner with capital letter only. • 10- Did you print the “Title” of your art work, between quotation marks and date?

  3. Write this down in your NOTEBOOK still life: a painting or drawing of inanimate objects such as fruit or Flowers or other objects

  4. The still life has origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art Roman wall painting in Pompeii around 70 AD

  5. Write this in your sketchbook: STILL LIFE Vanitas: Latin for vanity, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands (Holland) in the early 17th century. Vanitas are symbolic representations of inevitable death and invite the viewer to consider their mortality. Common symbols include skulls, candle stubs, over-bloomed flowers, overturned goblets, hourglasses, etc., which symbolize the vain or pointless ambitions in life, now we can mention: cell phones, TV, computer and other not animated objects Vanitas

  6. Abraham van Beyeren, Banquet Still Life (c. 1660)

  7. List 15 different items found in this vanitas. Although a few vanitas pictures include figures, the vast majority are pure still lifes, containing certain standard elements: symbols of arts and sciences (books, maps, and musical instruments.musical instruments), wealth and power (purses, jewelry, gold objects), and earthly pleasures (goblets, pipes, and playing cards.; symbols of death or transience (skulls, clocks, burning candles, soap bubbles, and flowers); and, sometimes, symbols of resurrection and eternal life (usually ears of corn or sprigs of ivy or laurel). Vanitas- click here to answer the following questions

  8. Note the use of positive and negative space Juan Sánchez Cotán, Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber (1602)

  9. Why might an artist paint a fruit, vegetable or flower decomposing in a vanitas? What might that represent symbolically?

  10. Frans Francken the Younger, Preziosenwand (Wall of Treasures), 1636. This type of painting was one of the distinctly Flemish innovations that developed during the early seventeenth century.

  11. still life, vanitas, and trompe l'oeil Photorealist AUDREY FLACK, Marilyn, 1977. Oil over acrylic on canvas

  12. Wheel of Fortune, 1977-78

  13. Energy Apples, 1980

  14. Invocation, 1982

  15. Chanel, 1974

  16. Queen, 1975-76

  17. What to do for your still life project. Draw a : Still Life drawing or Painting: • 1-uses 3 or more still life objects –1__________________ • 2___________3__________4_________5____________ • 2-drawing fills most of paper (table and background) 3-accuracy in drawing 4-shows overlapping 5--interesting composition 6-shading ((technique -effort/shows careful observation) 7-use colors – everything colored . 8-shading -shows lights darks and mid-tones. 9- Your Name and period .on the back 10- Title of your art work and date Follow these lines too for your greatest evaluation

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