Still Life A Art Type.

A drawing or painting of an arrangement of non moving, nonliving objects , such as fruit, flowers, or bottles.
Usually, a still life is set indoors and contains at least one man-made object, such as a bowl or vase.

Over the centuries artists have chosen the subject of still life for a variety of reasons: to reflect the status of their owner, be it humble or haughty; for their symbolic meaning which reveals a hidden story or idea; to capture the natural beauty of transient object like a flower or fruit; to demonstrate the artist's skilled painting technique; or as a controlled structure to express the abstract qualities of the visual elements.

Traditionally, still life is the drawing and painting of items such as fruit, flowers and household objects, which are usually arranged on a table top.

Willem Kalf painted still life which reflected the opulent lifestyle and status of their owner.

Chardin showed us that there is great beauty in the humble household objects that surround us.

Henri Matisse intensified our experience of fruit, flowers and exotic artifacts with his expressive use of color.

Juan Gris used still life to experiment with the way we perceive objects in space and time.

Still life as a subject has provided a platform for artists of different eras to explore their relationship with the world of objects that surround us.

As our world evolves, new products, artifacts and modern media will continue to suggest new avenues for the stylistic development and reinvention of still life as a subject in art.