Foodie Painting
Early 2000s Modern Animal Paintings
Lithograph
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Brutalist Decorative Art
Wood
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Prints
Paper
Antique 1880s American Industrial Signs
Bronze, Copper
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
20th Century English Hollywood Regency Tableware
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary French Animal Sculptures
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Paintings
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Vintage 1940s Mexican Modern Prints
Wood, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Picture Frames
Silver
Antique 1880s American Folk Art Signs
Silk
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Contemporary Art
Fabric, Acrylic, Yarn, Thread, Silk, Textile
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco More Furniture and Collectibles
Metal
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Teak, Ceramic
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Steel
20th Century Chinese Vases
Pottery
Recent Sales
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Erin Rothstein for sale on 1stDibs
Erin Rothstein is a Canadian artist living in Toronto. In her series, The Tasting Room, Rothstein uses her signature hyperrealist style to portray edible subjects on minimalist backgrounds. “I paint food because I love everything that has to do with food culture,” Rothstein explains. “You’ll often find me cooking and eating, all the while engrossed in a total culinary experience of smells, tastes and aesthetics. The foods I paint are universally relatable. They trigger people’s emotions on a very primal level, making them happy, hungry, excited and nostalgic.” Rothstein holds a B.F.A. from Concordia University, where she specialized in painting and drawing. She also holds an M.A. from The University of Western Ontario, where she studied in detail the evolution of décor in modern art. The Tasting Room Series has received a Scotiabank Viewers Choice Award, as well as support from the Ontario Arts Council. This series has also received recognition in The Huffington Post, The National Post, Architectural Digest and Toronto Life. Rothstein’s work is held in major collections, including Google and The Colart Collection. Her original artworks have been exhibited and collected internationally, including Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Zürich and New York.
A Close Look at photorealist Art
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
Finding the Right still-life-paintings for You
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.