There is much more to still life painting than the quintessential image of fruit in a bowl on a kitchen table, says Margaretta Gilboy, a decorated artist who will be visiting the Vail Valley this ...

After his apprenticeship, Melendez attended the royal art academy co-founded ... The limp bodies of paired birds in “Still Life With Pigeons, Onions, Bread, and Kitchen Utensils” are identical ...

Cast a wide search using any of these keywords, she says: “vintage still life” … “old oil painting” … “vintage French art.” I needed no convincing by this point, I needed kitchen ...

happily cluttered cafe tables, bustling fish markets, and romantic still life oil paintings are all fare fodder for souping up your kitchen’s ambiance.

Still-life painting has existed since time immemorial ... The Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen featured Biblical motifs in his market and kitchen scenes as a warning against excessive consumption ...

The quiet blues of his painting pay homage to Dutch still lives ... outside the cloistered world of a kitchen. There’s a knowing artificiality to a still life: it has to be set up and painted before ...

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the ...

For example, by 1666, two of her kitchen still lifes were documented in the Royal Collection in Madrid. “Her paintings were quite prized objects and were being passed around,” Chloe Stead ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has been ...