Still Life with Apples

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Still Life with Apples

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

From Wikipedia:

A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. Still life gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

Still life emerged from the painting of details in larger compositions with subjects, and historically has been often combined with figure subjects, especially in Flemish Baroque painting. The term includes the painting of dead animals, especially game. Live ones are considered animal art, although in practice they were often painted from dead models. The still-life category also shares commonalities with zoological and especially botanical illustration, where there has been considerable overlap among artists. Generally a still life includes a fully depicted background, and puts aesthetic rather than illustrative concerns as primary. Still life occupied the lowest rung of the hierarchy of genres, but still has been extremely popular with buyers. As well as the independent still-life subject, still-life painting encompasses other types of painting with prominent still-life elements, usually symbolic, and "images that rely on a multitude of still-life elements ostensibly to reproduce a 'slice of life'. The trompe-l'oeil painting, which intends to deceive the viewer into thinking the scene is real, is a specialized type of still life, usually showing inanimate and relatively flat objects.

This still life is hand-painted digitally from a composite of personal images, a stock image and one in the public domain. This is a new experiment for me as I've not tried a still life before.

Thank you so much to the following groups who have featured this painting:
FIRST STAR ART - JRR
COMPOSITE OR MIXED MEDIA - SHIRLEY
COLLECTORS TREASURES - KRISTA
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT - TODD AND CANDICE
IMPRESSIONISM - JOSEPH
VISUAL VOICE - ANNIE
WISCONSIN FLOWERS AND SCENERY - RANDY
BOOK COVERS 1 PER DAY - JO ANN
DIGITALLY RE-IMAGINED PHOTOS - DAVID
ART PROMOTION AND MARKETING - NICLA
BEAUTY - JAMES
FEMALE ARTISTS ONE WORK PER DAY - RC (GINA)
MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION - BARBARA
PREMIUM FAA ARTISTS - MARINESCU
SELECTED DIGITAL ART - TAIKAN
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
PLC-INC-FRIENDS AND FANS - PAINTED LADIES
PLEASING THE EYE - JEFF
MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA - SANDRA
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
GREETINGS AND POSTCARDS - SHARON
DIGITAL ART STYLES - NICLA
1-2-3-4-5 - SHITLAPRASAD
COMFORTABLE ART - JIM
THE ART SHOPPE CAFE - JACQUELINE

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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February 22nd, 2014

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