When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Damien Mammoliti Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting.

From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the ...

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here... In a 'Still Life' painting nothing moves — but, ...

There is perhaps no genre in painting today more unassuming than the floral still life. Even at the height of Western genre painting, which reached its apogee in Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th ...

Judith Linhares, "Freya’s Flowers" (2024), oil on linen (all image courtesy Judith Linhares and P·P·O·W, New York, © Judith Linhares. Photos Ian Edquist) The ...

"The Cut Melon," a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will be on view to the public starting Thursday at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.(Robert ...

In the 17th century, Holland was in bloom. Following a bout of “tulipmania” in the 1630s, it became fashionable to visit the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam’s botanical garden, to catch a glimpse of a ...

It’s not usually the case that you get a sweetener when you buy an item at auction, even when you pay tens of millions of dollars, but Sotheby’s London has a special offer in its March 6 Modern and ...

Weber, Bruce, "The Heart of the matter: the still lifes of Marsden Hartley," New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2003, fig. 8. Baker, John, "Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in American Still Life, ...

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the very ...