What is still life painting and what is the meaning of still life painting?

In the process of learning painting, still life painting is a must course for us. From the training for art exams to the training of university painting majors, still life painting is regarded as the key point. So the specific meaning of still life painting is What? Let’s explain the meaning of still life painting.

Still life painting is a type of painting that is different from figure painting and landscape painting in terms of expression content. Generally speaking, it depicts some natural objects or man-made objects in nature individually or in combination, and most of them are common or commonly used objects in people's daily life. When these static objects are created by artists into still life paintings and become works of art, they can arouse people's associations and memories of beautiful things, or the satisfaction of desires and perceptions through people's visual senses.

Still life painting had not become a separate type of painting before the Renaissance, and there were only some still life descriptions in the background of murals. The Renaissance artist Caravaggio created the first still life paintings in art history around 1590, such as "Fruit Basket"; the Spanish painter Subarán, who was about the same time as Caravaggio, also painted similar still life paintings of fruits. . The flower-and-bird paintings of China's Song and Song Dynasties, which are comparable in beauty to Caravaggio's works, can be called Chinese-style still life paintings. Since Caravaggio, there have been many painting masters in the history of European art who mainly create still life paintings, such as Snyders of the Flemish School, Hedda (Netherlands), and Charles, the French still life master of the 18th century. Dan et al. Later, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Renoir, Millet, Cézanne, and Bonnard, including some modern art masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Braque, etc., all painted still life paintings. It can be said that most artists in the West have studied still life paintings in their artistic careers. Still life painting has also gone through the historical evolution from realistic classical painting style to modern decorative deformation style.

We should not ignore still life painting as just a beginner's painting. As a type of painting, still life has occupied a considerable position in people's aesthetic minds. Many painters such as Snyders, Hedda, Chardin, Seon, Cézanne, Van Gogh, etc. have spent most or even all of their energy in their lives. He has conducted research in this field and left many extremely valuable art treasures to mankind.