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Still Life II |
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Still life, as an artistic medium, has probably been with us for as long as any other, although I personally can't recall any represented in the prehistoric cave paintings which have come down to us through the ages. Clearly though, still life has been with us as far back as ancient Egyptian tomb art and early Greek and Roman frescos and vases. For most of this time, still life seems to have been considered a "lower," or less serious form of art than other genres. |
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Cupcake Wedding Cake Christine and Cade Hansen's Wedding, Tucson, Arizona, 28 March 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rather than have a personal attitude about the "worthiness" of
still life in some subjective hierarchy of art genres, I tend to think of
this particular art as an intermediate stage in the broad visual spectrum
of imagery, with abstracts at one end and landscapes, portraits and the
like at the other. Still lifes are clearly more definable as combinations
of particular objects than abstracts, but may still be something of
abstracts of larger views of the broader world.
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