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Description: | A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter. Typical objects are natural forms such as food and plants or man-made objects like drinking glasses and watches. Popular in Western art since the 17th century, still life paintings gave the artist more freedom as they could arrange objects as they wished. Northern European artists were fascinated with highly detailed optical realism and disguised symbolism led them to lavish great attention on the meanings of various props and settings within their paintings' overall message.
Still life painting of poultry at a table. A duck hangs in the centre, light catching its outstretched wing and highlighting the detail of the feathers. Below is a bowl of white grapes. In the background is a blue jug with an ornate handle. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Game animals Victorian period Art collections | Temporal: | 1830 - 1873
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | DAVIS; William (1812 - 1873) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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