Famous floral still life paintings. The vibrant blossoms of flowers have long provided artists with inspiration with many dedicating their careers to produce still life paintings of various botanical beauties. Or man made like glasses musical instruments etc. Still life is the genre that the post impressionist master paul cezanne established as equal in stature to landscape or portraiture.
Anne vallayer coster vase of flowers 1780 gift of j. Still life is a genre which gained prominence in western art by the late 16th century and has remained an important genre since then. Representing mundane objects such as bowls flowers foodstuffs and other things found in a common household was and still is the main preoccupation of still life artistshowever the means styles and media in which still life can be represented varies significantly.
From 17th century dutch still life paintings to japanese woodblock prints flower art has a long and storied history. From an old wedding photograph a picture of a loved pet or your best selfie there is no limit to what our artists can create. Custom orders portraits we can turn any photograph into a beautiful hand painted masterpiece.
The still life paintings of francisco goya gustave courbet and eugene delacroix convey a strong emotional current and are less concerned with exactitude and more interested in mood. The flower paintings of de heem capture the beauty of flora while at the same time exemplifying the concept of art is long life is short embodied in dutch still life paintings of the 17th century. While still life painting can be traced back to the ancient egyptians it was only with the dutch painters of the 17th century dutch golden age that it came into its own as a painting genre.
As a result still life subjects have allowed artists to really test what is possible in terms of brushwork color and composition. Still lifes are categorized by the depiction of ordinary objects which may be natural like flowers fruits etc. Though patterned on the earlier still life subjects of chardin edouard manets still life paintings are strongly tonal and clearly headed toward impressionism.
Throughout art history flowers have been one of the most beloved subjects for painters. Sunflowers are the main topic of two separate series of van gogh s oil on canvas paintings and one of the most common motifs in the famous dutch painters work.