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Mary Chaplin, Summer Escape, Original Statement Abstract Impressionist Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Mary Chaplin Summer Escape Original Large Abstract Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 100cm x W 140cm Sold Unframed Ready to Hang Please note that insitu images are pure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Daisies 1992, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daisies 1992, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm "Daisies" is a serene and visually pleasing artwork that celebrates the elegance of nature. The composition depicts a bouquet of white dai...
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1990s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Saxophone #2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is a piece I painted after I did a photo shoot in my backyard. I was interested in photographing the saxophone on a bright sunny day with a field of grass ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Collector -Large Oversized Original Modern Still Life Interiors Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English artist Jonjo Elliot's large scale still life works are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments the viewer wants to immerse themselves in. He’s interested in the crossover point between abstract and representational art and is constantly exploring where painting can take him and the viewer as a means of expression. This large 68 inch high by 64 inch wide original painting is created with acrylic paint on canvas. This artwork is signed on the front and back. This artwork does not require framing, it is wired and ready to hang. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Jonjo Elliott is a mixed-media artist working in a range of mediums, from paper and paint to skate ramps, ceramics, and chairs. Working from his studio in the UK, his vibrant works are inspired by the spaces surrounding him and his large scale still life's are intended to bring color and delight into the homes of his collectors. A graduate of De Montfort University, he now manages a studio in Leicester. Jonjo's immersive and lively artworks are collected extensively in the UK, the US, and throughout the world. His works have been represented by Artplex Gallery since his Los Angeles solo show in 2019. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA EXHIBITIONS 2023 'Fragmented Fluorescence', Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2022 'Slice of life', Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 'Instalive', 19 Karen gallery, Brisbane, Australia Affordable Art Fair New York City 2021 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles 2019 Solo Show, Artplex Gallery Affordable Art Fair, New York 2018 Solo Show, LCB Depot Affordable Art Fair, London “Love Art,” Curve Theatre Roys People Art Fair, Oxo, London “Love Art,” New Walk Museum 2017 “Daily Grind,” Solo Show, LCB Depot “Permanent Fixture,” Gujiko Gallery “Steep Learning,” Curve Theatre “Staircase,” De Montefort University “Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Flowers 1978, Op Art Floral Oil Tempera on Board Roses Pop Art Large Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993) Flower, 1978 tempera on board 60 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches. Provenance: Sold: Christie's East, May 18, 1999, Lot 224 Blair Nesbitt is an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Although he worked in a variety of media and covered a wide range of subjects throughout his career, he is best known for his large, Photorealist botanical paintings. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933, Nesbitt earned a degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Later, he also studied at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Working in stained glass and etching and also producing abstract paintings in his early career, a 1962 encounter with artist Robert Indiana led him to steer his aesthetic toward realism. Though he held his first solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958, it was his 1964 debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that would truly bring him to the attention of the art world. In this exhibit, his botanical series of paintings, drawings, and prints captivated the art world and public alike. The game-changing Corcoran Gallery show would send his career down the trajectory of sustained success. In 1976, Nesbitt moved from his New York City West 14th Street studio to a massive space located at 389 West 12th Street. The 12,500 square foot living and workspace supplied ample room for creating his enormous paintings...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mary Chaplin, Magical Light in Monet's Garden in Givern, Floral painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Magical ligth in Monet’s garden in Giverny By Mary Chaplin [2021] original acrylic on canvas Image size: H:81 cm x W:116 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:81 cm x W:116 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Mary Chaplin, ' Magical light in Claude Monet’s garden...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Bad news., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
News cannot be the same for everyone. For some, this is the most pleasant news in the world. For some, it's the opposite. For this fish, the news turned out to be the last resort. ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Cacti with Shadows, Musee de la Palmeraie, Morocco, Desert art, Plants, Cactus
Located in Deddington, GB
Elaine Kazimierczuk Cacti with Shadows, Musee de la Palmeraie, Morocco (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look). It’s very difficult to cla...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Deer - Oil and Tempera by Paul Wilde - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Deer is an original modern artwork realzied by Paul Wilde (1893-1936) in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored oil and tempera on board. Monogram of the artist on the lower left ma...
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Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still Life - Oil on Majolica by Italian Master 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original oil on majolica, realized by Anonymous in the XX century. Good conditions. The artwork represents a beautiful still life scene characterized by fresh and ...
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Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Majolica

Ikebana (nestled), acrylic on canvas, raised texture, green, tan, rabbit
Located in San Diego, CA
Welcome to Ben Darby's world. This is a whimsical interpretation of an ikebana arrangement. The texture is raised along the branches, with a green gradient that falls to tan at the b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Papaveri - Poppies 1 - Painting by Adriano Bernetti da Vila - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Papaveri 1 is an original oil on canvas realized by the italian artist Adriano Bernetti da Vila.
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tic Tac, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Oil Painting on Cotton Canvas by Carlos Bruscianelli. 24x36 inches, 2018. Varnished work (glossy varnish). Black Gallery Frame :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes w...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still life with plainair
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work was painted in the open air in the shade of trees. It was hot and it was necessary to paint the picture quickly, as the fruit attracted wasps and could quickly deteriorate ...
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1990s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Tide, James Bonstow, seascape painting for sale , contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
The Tide by James Bonstow Original Seascape Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 110 cm x W 110 cm x D 4cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indicatio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Wax

What Thoughts Are Made Of, Oil, Monochromatic, Black, Curved Shape, Brushstrokes
Located in Riverdale, NY
What Thoughts Are Made Of is a monochromatic, textured oil painting by James Austin Murray. It is an all black oil painting on canvas on wood panel. It is 36x36 It is a stunning a...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Wood Panel

Breakfast - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Breakfast is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2007. Excellent conditions. Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was born in Helo...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Yellow Urn
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Yellow Urn", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2010 Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, White, G...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kleiderbügel
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. F...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Egg Tempera, Canvas

Colorful Still life. 1981. Canvas, oil, tempera, 65x88 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aija Zariņa is a prominent personality in Latvian art, actively advocating for idealism and personal freedom, against conformism. Her main theme is human existence, its fundamental c...
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1980s Fauvist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tempera

Schlüsselloch
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Schlüsselloch' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 33 x 54 cm, 2017 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and c...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Acrylic, Canvas

Fossil Air
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Brits, Original Contemporary Figurative Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
The Brits, Original Contemporary Figurative Still Life Painting, 2014 36" x 48" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas Artist Benjamin Ferry utilizes highlight a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reflections on Grantham, Train Painting, Contemporary Transport Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
The original photograph was taken by myself in 2016, it was literally a flying visit by the "Flying Scotsman" to Grantham Station. The title "Reflectio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Constant Battle - Impressionist Big White Floral Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
'Constant Battle' is an impressionist floral painting by urban impressionist painter Steve Javiel. The piece incorporates a blend of acrylic paints, markers, and spray paints on a ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Blooming Summer, 2020. Oil on canvas, 115 x 110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Works of Liene Liepina are full of life and joy because of photography-like, realistic details on the one hand, and intense and slightly artificial colors on the other. The artist gi...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Gondolier
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Gondolier", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015 Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, Black, Pink, Purple, Gr...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Still Life with Basket of Fruits - Original oil painting, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
André Cottavoz (1922-2012) Still Life with Basket of Fruits, 1960 Original oil painting Signed in the bottom right corner Signed and dated on the back On wood panel 19 x 35 cm (c. ...
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rubik, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Oil Painting on Cotton Canvas by Carlos Bruscianelli. Varnished work (glossy varnish). Black Gallery Frame :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certi...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Past Life
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Past Life" is an original oil on canvas painting by Katherine Fraser measuring 36.75”h x 48.5”w. The piece ships in the pictured custom frame. Katherine Fraser has been exhibited...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Game Room
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Game Room", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2018 Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Bl...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

Inside and around the glass, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
« I try to express fascination with artistic form, triumph of phenomenon, beauty of textiles, and attraction to the boundless variability of human body shapes and psychological mean...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Crooked Staircase
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Crooked Staircase", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015 Colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Blue, Black, Brown, ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Lady From Shanghai
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Lady From Shanghai", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015 Colors: Red, Yellow, O...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Red fish - XXI Century, Contemporary Painting, Still life, Textured, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Acrylics, metal, own technique on canvas. ANDRZEJ BOROWSKI (born in 1969) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts , at the Departments of Graphics and Painting in the atelier of profe...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Metal

Mr. And Mrs.
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "Mr. And Mrs.", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 33 x 28 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2017 Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Blue, Black, Green, Purple ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Still life - Still Life Painting by Domenico Purificato - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Still life in the canister is an original modern artwork realized by Domenico Purificato in 1957. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand sign...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Blue Urn
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Blue Urn", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2009 Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

"Entropy", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Entropy" is an acrylic painting that depicts an overturned blue glass jar with clock hands spilling out onto a white background. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Cherries - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Cherries is an original oil on canvas realized by the chinese painter Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) at the beginning of 2000s. Excellent conditions. Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror'...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spaghetti Western
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Human Figure / Interiors / Landscape / Still Life / Technology / Bright and Vivid Colors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Spaghetti Western...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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Epoxy Resin, Oil, Graphite, Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Spring", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Spring" is an acrylic painting that depicts a rubber toy duck trapped in a spring loaded mouse trap Bio: Josh Talbott grew up ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Who's Driving This Thing?", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Who's Driving This Thing" is an acrylic painting that depicts yellow scorpion appendages with the body of a black car having been released from a glass jar. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rowan, apples, bottles. 1976, oil on cardboard, 50x69.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with rowan, apples, bottles. 1976, oil on cardboard, 50x69.5 cm Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated ...
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1970s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lillium Umbellatum (Candlestick Lily)
By John Zak
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Zak Title: Lillium Umbellatum (Candlestick Lily) Year: 1974 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size 72 x 48 in. (182.88 x 121.92 cm)
Category

1970s American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Agua en el humo y cielo en el fuego, Polyptych. Wall painting Installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Agua en el humo y cielo en el fuego (Polyptych), 2022 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Total installation size (32 pieces): 246 cm H X 425 cm ...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Paint

Impressionist Royal Academy Oil on Canvas Modern British Art Flowers Slade
By Margaret Thomas
Located in Norfolk, GB
This beautifully compelling still life, oil on canvas board work was made by renown artist Margaret Thomas, a Modern British painter who trained in the...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Still life with chicken. Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with chicken and mushrooms. Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm hunting theme in painting Marc Sterling (1895-1976) Marc Sterling was born in Pryluky, a small town in Ukraine, wher...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Flowers and Objects - Oil on Canvas by Alfonso Avanessian - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Flowers and Objects is an original oil on canvas painting realized by Alfonso Avanessian in 1990. The piece is hand signed lower right. Hand signed, dated, and locat...
Category

1990s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blending In, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A hyperrealistic close-up view of an eye surrounded by vibrant red and yellow flowers in full bloom. "The viewer cannot know if the model is a man or woman, a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Thriving - Flower Impressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
'Thriving' is an impressionist floral painting by urban impressionist painter Steve Javiel. The piece incorporates a blend of acrylic paints, markers, and spray paints on a canvas. I...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Bloom Bomb, Deeper Still and Jubilation, floral art, abstract art
Located in Deddington, GB
'Bloom Bomb, Deeper Still and Jubilation' all incorporate Michelle Marra's swaths of colour, texture and light. She is inspired by the lyrical movement and biomorphic forms in luscio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled at Sea", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Untitled at Sea" is an acrylic painting that depicts a small toy red piano floating suspended in a light blue sea background. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Peonies 1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Peonies 1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm The combination of the pink flowers and the blue vase creates a harmonious color scheme, evoking a sense of tranquility and elegance. The pa...
Category

1970s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elements of Composition - Oil on Canvas by Mario Asnago - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Elements of Composition is an original Oil on Canvas realized by the italian painter Mario Asnago in 1960s. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame: 79 x 3 x 88 cm Good cond...
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Schlüsselloch
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Schlüsselloch' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 33 x 54 cm, 2017 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. Fides Becker (* 1962) developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors, and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present, and personal and collective images. Fides Becker (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Egg Tempera, Canvas

Blue Shutter and Still life with Bird and Food
Located in Deddington, GB
Blue Shutters and Still life with a bird and fruit by Charlie Baird [2021/22] original Oil on Canvas Image size: H:62 cm x W:67 cm Complete Size of Un...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cherries - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Cherries is an original oil painting realized by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2006. Includes frame. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Zhang Wei Gu...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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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.

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