Still life

Still Life Photographers: Top Artists Redefining Vanitas

Vanitas still life: Dutch & Flemish art rich in symbolism, reflecting on mortality, materialism, and life’s fleeting beauty.

17/06/2025

Fruit Paintings to Contemplate the Transience of Life

The depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history. With practice stretching back to ancient civilizations, a variety of fruit paintings can be seen in Greek and Roman depictions of banquets and bacchanals and inside Egyptian burial chambers depicted among all of the good things waiting for the deceased in the afterlife. A recurring theme through the…

21/03/2025

10 Famous Still Life Artists of the 20th Century

Famous still life artists of the 20th century created their works in various styles. In this top list, discover their most notable works.

26/02/2024

Food in art

Vital need and socio-cultural connection, food inspires artists. Discover now the incredible place of food in art!

14/10/2022

What is Memento Mori?

From still life to portrait, Memento Mori uses the power of symbolism. But what exactly is Memento Mori art?

30/05/2022

The 8 Most Famous Flower Artworks

From the Golden age to modern day floral sculpture, here we have selected the 8 of the most famous flower artworks we think you should know.

25/11/2021

How Contemporary Artists Are Making Still Life Art Cool Again

Let's discover the many facets of contemporary still life art : Glorification of banality and play between reality and artificiality

15/01/2015

A Short Guide to Cubism

Cubism is the fragmentation of the object, the body, the portrait, the still life or the landscape. It is an avant-garde movement, like Fauvism before it. Picasso said in 1935: "When we did cubism, we had no intention of doing cubism, but only of expressing what was in us". Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso The movement has it’s origins in…

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