Western still life painting came into being in ()

Western still life painting came into being in Holland in the17th century.

Still life painting is a kind of painting that depicts static natural or man-made objects. It is reflected in various paintings, prints, mosaics and photographs. Still life painting is at the bottom of the academic painting school. Still life painting has a long history, but independent still life painting is the product of the Renaissance, which made great development between 17 and 19 century.

Decoration and symbol are two major functions of still life painting. Still life painting is a kind of painting that depicts static natural or man-made objects. It is reflected in various paintings, prints, mosaics and photographs. This concept means "still life" in English and Dutch.

In French, Italian and Russian, it means "natura morta" (натюрморт), which is relative to animal painting. Still life painting is at the bottom of the academic painting school.

19th-century still life paintings continued to develop in the works of painters of realism, impressionism and other schools, and were widely welcomed by bourgeois audiences. Paul Cezanne, a post-impressionist painter, pursues a sense of form in still life painting, and pays attention to the three-dimensional sense of structure and color in modeling, instead of relying on light and shade, thus inspiring cubism and other modern schools.

Tracing back to history:

In the murals and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs, there are images of food and utensils for the deceased to enjoy after death. There are also a lot of pictures depicting everyday things in ancient Greek bottle paintings, ancient Roman Pompeii murals and mosaics. In the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, still life painting was only used as the background, decoration or symbolic element of painting, while independent still life painting was produced in the Renaissance.

Leonardo da Vinci and Diu Lei both painted watercolors or sketched still life paintings with practical nature, and Venetian painter Balbarie's Still Life Painting: Partridges and Armor 1504 is considered as one of the earliest still life paintings in modern times.