Still Life.

 

"There is no still life in nature! Everything lives and moves, everything inhales and exhales, everything changes every minute," said the French art critic tore-Bourget, and the greatest master of still life Chardin argued: "you should not Write with colors, but with feeling." And, indeed, real still lifes can excite us no less than genre paintings.

 

Still life is a genre of fine art, dedicated to the image of things around a person, placed, as a rule, in a real household environment and compositionally organized into a single group. Favorite themes of still life have always been flowers, vegetables and fruits, seafood, kitchen utensils, etc. still Life for many centuries has been and remains an integral part of the interior, its decoration, and ranges from traditional still lifes with flowers, fruits, game, household items, utensils, to allegorical, thematic and historical still lifes, carrying a special philosophical meaning. There is a special kind of paintings of this genre, the so-called still lifes-deceptions, in which objects are depicted so real that creates the illusion of real life. The most popular still lifes, executed in oil on canvas, in its own beautiful still lifes watercolor, pastel, gouache on paper.