Still-life Paintings
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Artist Comments
Vibrant yellow-orange sunflowers on verdant stems, rustically arranged in a small glass jar. Soft light accentuates the curling, pointed ends of the blossoms. Painted on Arches heavyweight oil primed paper, which can be framed with our without glass.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: sunflowers, floral, bouquet, flowers, still life, still life, flora, representational, oil painting, green
Little Jar...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Linen
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil, Ink
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Watercolor, Archival Paper
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Glass, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Ceramic, Glaze
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Gesso, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Jo Galang explains that this warm, painterly image of poppies is in fact a reference to Remembrance Day. "The symbolism of the poppy started with a poe...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Panel, Wood Panel, Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
1970s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Gouache, Paper
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Pointillist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A modernist painting part of artist Rachel Srinivasan's Cubist Coffee series. For these pieces, Rachel studies her extensive collection of cafetieres that she keeps in her studio. "The work is inspired by Modernism, Cubism, and even architecture," says Rachel. "It reminds me of the years I lived in Italy."
About the Artist
For Rachel Srinivasan, an idea is worth putting on a canvas only if it still feels exciting after a few days. Rachel enjoys mulling the idea over in her mind for some time before creating an artwork. She hopes viewers will engage with her work and wonder about the subject matter, shapes and colors. "My current work is all about creating a connection between the person on the canvas with the viewer," she explains. She prefers large paintings and sometimes even makes her own canvases. She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys baking rhubarb pies, reading, running and going to art museums.
Words that describe this painting: coffee, moka...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
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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.