A simple collection of still life painting images throughout art history.

1. Still Life
Painting:
an introduction

2. Look at the following artworks.
These artists were interested in
the form, colour and textures of
objects and plants.

3. The paintings vary in highly
distinctive ways.
Some artists chose to represent
the subject matter realistically,
and some were more interested
in searching for ways of arranging
their world on a flat surface.
Some were also simply interested
in showing off their technical
skill.

4. Look at how the artists
used colour, how they
handled light, shadow,
and texture.

5. “Vase of Flowers”
Hans Memling
1480

6. “Vases of Flowers”
Ludger Tom Ring The Younger
1562

7. “Basket of Fruit”
Michelangelo
c. 1593-94

8. “Quince, Cabbage, Melon & Cucumber”
Juan Sanchez Cotan
c. 1602

9. “Still Life with Pottery Jars”
Francisco de Zurbaran
1636

10. “Slaughtered Ox”
Rembrandt
1655

11. “Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers & Plums”
Rachel Ruysch
1704

12. “Bookcase With Books”
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
c. 1725/30

13. “Still Life with Cantaloup Melon”
Luis Melendez
c. 1765

14. “Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks”
Francisco De Goya
c. 1808-1812

15. “Still Life with Apples and Grapes”
Claude Monet
1880

16. “Sunflowers”
Vincent van Gogh
1888

17. “Still Life with Apples, a Pear and a Ceramic Portrait Jug”
Paul Gauguin
1889

18. “Still Life with Apples & Oranges”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
c. 1897

19. “Fruits”
Henri Matisse
1901

20. “Still-Life”
Kazimir Malevich
1911

21. “Still-Life with Teapot and Fruit”
Henri Rousseau
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22. “Still Life with Watermelon”
Umberto Bocciono
1913/14

23. “Still Life Apples Vase”
Maurice Prendergast
1913-1915

24. “The Song of Love”
Giorgio de Chirico
1914

25. “Still-Life with a Beer Mug”
Ferdinand Leger
1921

26. “Still Life in front of the Window”
Juan Gris
1922

27. “Still-Life with Stone”
Pablo Picasso
1924

28. “Still Life (With Clarinet)”
Georges Braque
1927

29. “Still Life (Red & Yellow)”
Arshile Gorky
1930

30. “Tunas (Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit)”
Frida Khalo
1938

31. “Binaca Toothpaste”
Niklaus Stoecklin
1941

32. “Still Life”
Girogio Morandi
1943

33. “Nature mort a la carafe”
Nicolas de Stael
1953

34. “Still Life Yellow Flowers”
Aleksandr Deyneka
1954

35. “Still-Life-Fast Moving”
Salvador Dali
1956

36. “Pies, Pies, Pies”
Wayne Thiebaud
1961

37. Andy Warhol
Big Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot)
1962

38. “Cape Cod Still Life”
Roy Lichtenstein
1972

39. “Pears”
William Scott
1979

40. “Flower In Red Pot”
Aleksandr Kosenkov
2011

42. Frank Curkovic
*for educational purposes*