Essay On Still Life

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Every art piece always has a concealed meaning behind it, which is not always visible the first time you look at the art piece. Thus, each and every art piece has themes. The themes which are mostly used in still life can be religious, cultural, political, social, personal, existential, non-existential and many more. However, they can be arranged according to their color, the letter they start with, their texture or anything they all share; this means they many interpretations can be given to a single artwork.
In past, people mostly tried to bring out religious and mythological themes through their still life drawings or paintings. Since Church was the heart of everyday life, people drew the embedded system of the class hierarchy. However, by 16th century science overtook the religious world, so most of the artworks had something to do with science, and later on with the natural world. By the 19th century people were more interested and tried to display human nature, including their inner soul and psychological . Exposing still life artwork on canvas began in the 20th century when this type of art got involved with geometry. Much later, just like Pop Art and Photorealism, the still life art pieces were highly valued as commodity and acknowledged for their commercialism.
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Objects like, books, bowls, vases, bottles, boxes, jars, etc. are very common in his pieces. For instance, if we look at the painting called “Natura Morta (Still Life) – 1953 (oil on canvas). We can see a vase, a bowl/a cup behind some boxes. They are all put on a table – like surface in a specific arrangement. The objects make the artwork look very simple and modest. People say. “things that don’t seek for our attention are the ones we usually pay attention at” and I can connect it to the art piece “Natura Morta –

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