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Nature morte fruit faïence et couteau
André-Laurent Kunkler
Painting - 23 x 26 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.1 x 10.2 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,850
Départ pour la pêche, chapeau, flèches et pagaie
A. A. Alaned
Painting - 30.5 x 91.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 36 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,650
Nature morte à l'arrosoir et aux cactus
William Goliasch
Painting - 46 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,030
Noblewoman (The Red Glove)
Eliano Fantuzzi
Painting - 44 x 48 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 18.9 x 0 inch
CHF 3,560
Still life even under the sea
Emilio Cardona
Painting - 80 x 115 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.3 inch
CHF 5,595
Nature Morte au Pichet
Demetrios Galanis
Print - 14.8 x 15 x 0.1 cm Print - 5.8 x 5.9 x 0 inch
CHF 498
Grande Natura Morta Circolare con Bottiglia e Tre Oggetti
Giorgio Morandi
Print - 35 x 52 x 0.2 cm Print - 13.8 x 20.5 x 0.1 inch
CHF 65,100
All Shook Up
Terrece Beesley
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0.5 inch
CHF 1,668
Still life with a pitcher
Ewa Bajek
Painting - 70 x 70 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 inch
CHF 763 CHF 618
Main, étude expressionniste
Lionel le Jeune
Sculpture - 24 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
CHF 1,017
A transience insight
Li Baoxun
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 55 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 2,543
Still Life With Fruit And Vegetables
Luigi Spazzapan
Painting - 25 x 55 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 21.7 x 1 inch
CHF 3,357
Composition
Sandro Chia
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 inch
CHF 10,172 CHF 9,155
Les 3 coings
Stéphane Dufraisse
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,340
Flower Pot
Fiorenzo Tomea
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 34 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
CHF 2,441
Espace libre
Pierre Le Preux
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 15.7 inch
CHF 326
Boca de Incensios
Manuel Quintana Martelo
Print - 64.8 x 96.52 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.5 x 38 x 0 inch
CHF 610
Before Tomorrow
Jason Alexander
Painting - 88.9 x 68.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 inch
CHF 2,190
Stealing beauty
Svetlana Tatarina
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,068
Bientôt les premières neiges mangeront les couleurs; le paysage en profitait pour parader et revêtir son costume de fête, la joie était partout.
François Pagé
Painting - 20 x 20 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
CHF 203
Blau i Taronja
Esther Olivé de Puig
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,119
Nature morte
Mariana Bunimov
Fine Art Drawings - 76.5 x 64 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.1 x 25.2 inch
CHF 4,577
Chanel
Vaibhav Rastogi
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 20.9 inch
CHF 1,119
The painter's house
Mariana MeryMax
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 254
1 - La descente de Persephone
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 814
American Goldfinch
Kevin Frank
Painting - 30.48 x 22.86 x 3.81 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1.5 inch
CHF 1,919
Tulips on pedestal table
Walter Bachinski
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 2 inch
CHF 4,847
Fenêtre sur le passé
Caroline Lazaro
Photography - 150 x 126 cm Photography - 59.1 x 49.6 inch
CHF 4,577
Cerises sur étagère
Philippe Destors
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,312
Pekingese Family of Dogs
Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi
Painting - 70 x 101 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.8 x 0.2 inch
CHF 7,120
Vaso di Anemoni (Red Anemones)
Arturo Noci
Painting - 50.5 x 65.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.9 x 25.7 x 0.1 inch
CHF 13,732
Landscape with a Moon Jar
Mun-Hyun Cho
Painting - 65.2 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
CHF 4,577
Flowers and fruits
Nina Mozalevskaia
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
CHF 5,127
Vinyl collection nine piece multicolour installation
Heidler & Heeps
Photography - 115 x 115 x 0.5 cm Photography - 45.3 x 45.3 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,648
Still life
Federico Zandomeneghi
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
CHF 2,238
Cairn (Les Landes océan)
Raphaël Galley
Sculpture - 12 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
CHF 610
Bodegón eléctrico (Print)
Jose Manuel Merello
Print - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
CHF 305
Coquelicots et soucis
Michel Vezinet
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 915
Hommage à Appel
Volker Kühn
Sculpture - 48 x 36 x 10 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 14.2 x 3.9 inch
CHF 1,271
La magie quotidienne (l'atelier)
Alberto Giacometti
Print - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
CHF 3,865
Frankestein - Jake in the Box Theme
Mark Carpenter
Painting - 9.2 x 6 cm Painting - 3.6 x 2.4 inch
CHF 81
The Clock
Shabana Godhrawala
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 0.1 inch
CHF 3,612
Gouache d'étude pour Gitanes
Pierre Fix-Masseau
Painting - 41 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
CHF 3,560 CHF 3,204
Stone pot with apples
Jan Nederlof
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 3,713
Fragment de scie rouillée
Yuri Kuper
Painting - 200 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 15,258
Still life
Although at its heart a classic subject, the still life was the preferred approach of Cézanne, the artist who paved the way for art to enter its most modern phase. From Cubism to Hyperrealism via Pop art, sculpture, and photography, almost all art forms have been at some point shown that it is still possible to breathe new life into this age old theme.
Be it completely de-structured, funny, classic, or minimalist, the contemporary still life is far from old fashioned, despite the fact that it boasts a long, celebrated history.
Let's take a closer look at this theme that recurs so often across art history… even in antiquity, Pliny had already written about a painter called Piraikos, known for his paintings of 'provisions for cooking', and the optical illusions of Zeuxis, from which it was said that birds would try to pick off the raisins because they looked so real. The conventional still life as we know it today, however, dates back to the 17th century, where it developed in Holland under strict aesthetic codes.
Generally, oils on canvas were the preferred method for representing inanimate objects of varying types (lots of fruit, fish, game…) and flowers. The colours were muted, the background a monochromic black, the atmosphere heavy, and the light at a steep diagonal angle. There were few elements but they were precisely arranged and loaded with religious symbolism.
Even though still life was never considered a genre in its own right, almost all of the great masters have tried their hand at it at some point or other. Across the 19th century, all the art movements went through a still life phase: romanticism, impressionism, symbolism… and under the brushes of Degas, Cézanne, Monet, etc., still life evolved.
Little by little, artists added colours, erased the biblical references and replaced them with everyday objects in ever greater numbers: cooking utensils, cups of coffee, gas lamps, musical instruments…
In the 20th century, modern art once more dusted off this 'boring' subject, and began to play with its strict codes. From cubism to pop art to surrealism, all of the artistic movements made their mark on still life. Bit by bit, they took it to pieces and rebuilt it, moving ever closer to the contemporary still life, which has little to do with the original genre except for its central theme.
After his separation from Olga Khokhlova in 1936, Pablo Picasso painted 'Still Life Under a Lamp' whose plastic elements suggested themes that would later be developed in his famous 'Guernica' the following year. Pale lamplight dominates the triangular composition in the centre of the canvas and the arms of the antique sculpture appear to be on the verge of falling off the table. Although the piece altogether seems to move away from the classic still life, it maintains the traditional heavy atmosphere.
In 1956 the Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali painted 'Living Still Life' in his typical humorous style. The canvas – divided in two to represent night and day – shows a table on a balcony. The elements (wine, water, a pear, a knife…) are in motion, or rather levitating, as though someone has just struck the tabletop.
Artsper invites you to explore a range of contemporary still life pieces that are both traditional and surprising in our unique selection. Discover the work of Syvie Andlauer Baruch, Gonzalo Sicre, Zbigniew Wozniak, and many more…