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Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 26, 2018 - 12:44pm PT

[animal illustration? still life]

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 26, 2018 - 12:48pm PT

[still life]

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 26, 2018 - 12:50pm PT

[botanical illustration]

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 26, 2018 - 12:54pm PT

[botanical illustration]

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Dec 26, 2018 - 01:21pm PT

Aeriq

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100-year Visitor

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2018 - 03:49pm PT

Nice shots!

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Dec 26, 2018 - 05:27pm PT

It's a silly-ass question, but why do we call paintings which include dead game birds "still life," since the subjects are not living?

Are we so unimaginative? Admittedly, "still death" has no "ring" to it, no "cachet," if you will.
--The Ruminator

Really like your forest, Aeriq.

originalpmac

Mountain climber

Timbers of Fennario

Dec 26, 2018 - 06:26pm PT

...with a

Aeriq, that bonsai garden is awesome. Is that yours?

rincon

climber

Coarsegold

Dec 26, 2018 - 06:35pm PT

zBrown

Ice climber

Dec 26, 2018 - 06:46pm PT

Aeriq

Sport climber

100-year Visitor

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2018 - 07:14pm PT

The cat in a still life is marginal... but OK - I got one of those:

The bonsai forest is a 350-year-old set from the Japanese Pavilion at the Huntington Gardens.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Dec 26, 2018 - 07:48pm PT

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 26, 2018 - 09:02pm PT

A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_life

Rcklzrd

Trad climber

Prescott, AZ

Dec 27, 2018 - 05:17am PT

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 27, 2018 - 10:11am PT

more... from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_genres

The hierarchies in figurative art are those initially formulated for painting in 16th-century Italy, which held sway with little alteration until the early 19th century. These were formalized and promoted by the academies in Europe between the 17th century and the modern era, of which the most influential became the French Académie de peinture et de sculpture, which held a central role in Academic art. The fully developed hierarchy distinguished between:[1]

History painting, including historically important, religious, mythological, or allegorical subjects
Portrait painting
Genre painting or scenes of everyday life
Landscape and cityscape art (landscapists were called "common footmen in the Army of Art" by the Dutch theorist Samuel van Hoogstraten)
Animal painting
Still life

The hierarchy was based on a distinction between art that made an intellectual effort to "render visible the universal essence of things" (imitare in Italian) and that which merely consisted of "mechanical copying of particular appearances" (ritrarre).[2] Idealism was privileged over realism in line with Renaissance Neo-Platonist philosophy.