Still life occupied the lowest rung of the hierarchy of genres, but has been extremely popular with buyers.
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12 Facts About Still life
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Still life singled out Peiraikos, "whose artistry is surpassed by only a very few.
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Still life painted barbershops and shoemakers' stalls, donkeys, vegetables, and such, and for that reason came to be called the 'painter of vulgar subjects'; yet these works are altogether delightful, and they were sold at higher prices than the greatest [paintings] of many other artists.
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Still life who produces perfect landscapes is above another who only produces fruit, flowers or seafood.
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Still life developed as a separate category in the Low Countries in the last quarter of the 16th century.
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The English term still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven while Romance languages tend to use terms meaning dead nature.
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German still life followed closely the Dutch models; Georg Flegel was a pioneer in pure still life without figures and created the compositional innovation of placing detailed objects in cabinets, cupboards, and display cases, and producing simultaneous multiple views.
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Still life's Still Life with Drawing Board is a self-portrait in still-life form, with Van Gogh depicting many items of his personal life, including his pipe, simple food (onions), an inspirational book, and a letter from his brother, all laid out on his table, without his own image present.
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Still life painted his own version of a vanitas painting Still Life with Open Bible, Candle, and Book.
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For Cezanne, still life was a primary means of taking painting away from an illustrative or mimetic function to one demonstrating independently the elements of colour, form, and line, a major step towards Abstract art.
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Still life was the subject matter in the first Synthetic Cubist collage works, such as Picasso's oval "Still Life with Chair Caning".
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Fernand Leger's still life introduced the use of abundant white space and coloured, sharply defined, overlapping geometrical shapes to produce a more mechanical effect.
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