Interesting still lifes. Unexpected still lifes

The word "still life" comes from the French phrase "Nature Morte" and means a sorting or dead nature. But it seems to me that the essence of this type of art gives the English expression "Still Life" - "fixed, frozen life." After all, at its essence, still life - nothing else like a selection of a piece of life.

Collecting material for this article, I encountered certain difficulties. At first glance, take off the still life easier than simple. Put a cup on the table, added some details to it, set the light and click the shutter. Fashion models are always at hand, unlimited time for shooting. Convenient and costs are minimal. Therefore, they love this genre novice photographers. And some achieve very interesting results. Go to any photographic site, select the appropriate section and admire the really chic pictures. But the time passes, and many questions arise: "Why do you need to shoot it? Who needs it? What will I have from this?" Without finding answers to these questions, many switches to wedding, children's or animal photographs that give some income. Still life does not enjoy special respect and masters photos. Not profitable this business. If something can bring, it is only aesthetic satisfaction. And they shoot still lifes from time to time, so to speak, to catch up with their skill.

But there are units that see in still life, something more than just a beautiful picture. So, I dedicate my article to this masters.

I confess, at first I wanted to make a selection of photographers who like me, and which rightfully occupy the first places in the ratings on various photosites. And then the question arose: "Why?" Everyone knows how to use the Internet, most of Ned once have shown photosites, familiar with the best works, and the information about the interested photographer can always be found with the search engine. I decided to tell about special photographers - those whose creativity turns the recognized canons from the legs on the head, who really made something new, who managed to see something unusual in everyday things. In different ways can be treated for their work: admire or, on the contrary, do not take. But, unambiguously, their work cannot leave anyone indifferent.

1. Kara Barer

Kara Berr (1956), photographer from the United States, chose one object for filming - a book. By converting it, it creates amazing book sculptures that photographs. Consider her photos can be infinite. After all, each such book sculpture carries a certain meaning, and ambiguous.

2. Gwido Mocafico (Guido Mocafico)

Swiss photographer Guido Mokafiko (1962) in his work is not limited to one subject. He is interested in different objects.

But even taking a single piece, he gets amazing work. Its famous series "Movement" ("Movement"). It seems to be simply taken by the mechanisms of hours, and after all, everyone, if you look, your own character.

In still lifes, as you know, the "non-fatal nature" is removed. In its series "Snakes", Guido, the mocafiko violated this rule and for the object of the still life took a living being. Snakes, rolled by eating, create an amazing, bright and unique picture.

But the photographer creates traditional still lifes, removing them in a Dutch style, and using such non-residential items as a details.

3. Carl Kleiner (Carl Kleiner)

Swedish photographer Karl Kleyper (1983) for its still lifes uses the most common items, making them in bizarre pictures. Photos of Karl Kleiner colorful, Graphic and experimental. Fantasy it is limitless, it uses completely different materials, from paper to eggs. Everyone as they say goes into business.

4. Charles Grogg (Charles Grogg)

The still life of American Charles Grogg is made in black and white. Photographer for filming also uses ordinary household items available in every home. But experimenting with their location and combining in unusual combinations, the photographer creates truly fantastic paintings.

5. What Madoz (Chema Madoz)

I am sure that works by Madoz (1958), a photographer from Spain familiar to many. Its black and white still lifes, made in a surrealistic style, do not leave anyone indifferent. A unique look of the photographer on ordinary things admires. The works of Madosa are full of not only humor, but also in deep philosophical meaning.
The photographer himself says that his photos are made without any digital processing.

6. Martin Klimas (Martin Klimas)

In the works of Martin Klimas (1971), a photographer from Germany, also no photoshop. Only short, or rather, supercore, excerpt. Its specially developed technique allows you to capture a unique moment that a human look can not even see. Removes Martin Klimas his still lifes in complete darkness. Using a special device at the time of breaking the item on a split of a second, an outbreak is turned on. And the camera records a miracle. Here you just have vases with flowers!

7. John Chervinsky (John Chervinsky)

American John Cervinsky (1961) is a scientist working in the field of applied physics. And his still-liver is a mixture of science and art. Here and you will not understand: or still life, or a teaching manual in physics. When creating their still lifes, John Cervinski uses the laws of physics, receiving an incredibly interesting result.

8. Daniel Gordon (Daniel Gordon)

Daniel Gordon (1980), a photographer from America, not concerned with scientific issues. When photographing still lifes, he chose another path. Prints on the printer colored pictures downloaded from the Internet, these pieces of paper, and then wraps different items in them. It turns out something like paper sculptures. Bright, beautiful, original.

9. Andrew Myers (Andrew B. Myers)

Andrew Myers (1987), photographer from Canada, do not confuse with any other - they are always recognizable. A simple gentle, calm background, a lot of empty space, which creates a feeling of filler image with light and air. Most often to create still lifes, items of the 70s and 1980s. His works are graphic, stylish and cause certain nostalgia.

10. Regina Decomis (Regina Deluise)

To create their works, Regina Curisis (1959), photographer from the United States does not use a mirror photographic engineering. She chose another way - printed negatives from a film on a special rag paper. Its poetic images contain a large range of tones and a variety of textures. Still lifes are very gentle and poetic. Amazing game of light and shadows.

11. Bochcong koo (Bohnchang Koo)

Bochchang ku (1953), photographer from South Korea, prefers white color. Created still lifes - white on white - just amazing. They are not only beautiful, but also carry a certain meaning - the preservation of ancient Korean culture. After all, the photographer is specially traveling around the world, looking for objects of cultural heritage in museums.

12. Chen Wei (Chen Wei)

Chen Wei (1980), photographer from China, on the contrary, finds inspiration for its work near the house. Showing strange spaces, scenes and objects, it uses the props, thrown by others on landfills.

13. Alekandra Laviada (Alejandra Laviada)

Aleukandra Laviad, photographer from Mexico, uses destroyed and abandoned buildings for his filming, creating still lifes from objects found there. Her still-life tells real stories about people, which lived in these buildings and enjoyed the things left behind the unnecessary things.

Well, what, still let's see pictures?
Unexpected still lifes are because we usually expect completely different plots from their authors. Traditionally, these artists worked in completely different genres, preferring landscape, portrait or genre painting. Only occasionally, something was getting into the head and they exclaimed: "And I rizanu, I am this vase with tubath!". True, it happened extremely rarely. It is so rare that I had half a day to rummage in the sources to find their still lifes.

Let's start with ours:

Mark Chagal "White Flowers on Red Background." 1970. The brand of all a couple-triple of still lifes, written in the already mature age, and then he, accustomed to the image of human-animal fiction magicians, could not resist in any of them - at least a piece of human physiognomy, at least somewhere with the seal, and insert.

I, for example, love still lifes, and most artists are not. Somehow it is not solidically a mastic creator, all students study the basics of drawing from staged still lifes.

Especially unpopular was still life in the second half of the 19th century, to the greatest degree of impressionists, there was also a dislike of our motherboards. Some of them did not find any still life. There are no such works and, for example, Nesterov, Queenji, Aivazovsky, Perov, Grigory Myasedov (who will find, tell me, add).

Victor Vasnetsov "Bouquet". The fabulous or epic story - please, the Kiev Vladimir Cathedral is to paint easily, but with still lifes, the artist does not destroy. However, they are!

Of course, among the impressionists there are exceptions - still loved the still life of Cezanne, although he did not consider himself an impressionist. "We broke out" on the still lifes, the postimipresions - Wang Gogh and Matisse (listed I will not light here - we hunt behind the rare works of "non-bliss" still life). But, mostly, representatives of these areas are a flower-fruit case disliked - bourgeois and patriarchal, without a loved movie - Skobet! Even Berta Morizo \u200b\u200bis the only girl among impressionists, and she did not love this little "girl" genre.

Ilya Repin "Apples and Leaves", 1879 . Still life - not typically for Repin. Even here, the composition does not look like a classic production - it can all lie somewhere on the ground under the tree, no glasses and drapes.

Not always still life worried about bad times. He began to appear in the 16th century, as long as part of genre paintings, and in the 17th century, thanks to the Dutch men, the abrasion into an independent genre of painting. It was very popular in 18th and in the first half of the 19th century, and then, thanks to innovative movements in art, the popularity began to fall. The revival of fashion for still life began in about the 20s of the 20th century. Many artists-representatives of contemporary art again took up vases and peaches, but these were already new forms. Of course, a completely genre never died, and has society (and now there is) a whole Pleiad of artist artists. We will talk about it later, but for now I'm silent, only I will comment something, and you just look at the rare still-life of the authors who wrote them only occasionally:

Valentin Serov "Lilac in a vase", 1887.
On his well-known work, you can see only a piece of still life - peaches in front of the girl. The physician portraitist, it can be seen, it was boring to write flowers and corpses of birds.

Isaac Levitan. "Forest violets and forget-me-not," 1889.The genius of the Russian landscape sometimes wrote and wonderful still lifes. But very seldom! There is also a jug with dandelions - adorable!

Vasily Surikov "Bouquet".
The author of "Morning strike" loved scope and drama. But it has been preserved - a little naive and charming roses.

Boris Kustodiev. "Still life with pheasants", 1915 . Often, there are huge still-life in his works - he painted the deposits and ruddy peasants behind the tables, literally brushed from the diet. In general, his cheerful bright canvas look like still life, even if it is a portrait, but some individual images are not a checkpone, but her breakfast is a bit.

Victor Borisov-Musatov "Lilac", 1902.
I really like his original density, no more similar. It can always be found, and in this still life - too.

Mikhail Vrubel "Flowers in Blue Vaza", 1886
What talent! How to the offensive little time! Flowers are also chic as demons.

Vasily Tropinin "Dupel and Snegir", 1820s.
A serf artist seemed to relate to the genre of still life without much respect, and therefore almost never painted him. What you see is not even a full-fledged canvas, but an etude.

Kazimir Malevich. "Still life". Did you think and apples are square?

Ivan Kramskaya "Bouquet of flowers. Floxes", 1884
Directly at the cottage wanted - I also had Flox in the summer there.

Vasily Kandinsky "Fish on the Blue Plate". Not yet completely all in the rags, eyes and even mouth are traced in the picture, and they are even near!

Nathan Altman "Mimosa", 1927
I like. There's something about it.

Ivan Shishkin, 1855.
And where are the bears and the forest?!

I also wanted to insert Petrova-Vodkina, but he had quite a lot of still lifes, as it seemed. And Mashkova, Lentulova, Konchalovsky, so that they are not suitable for this post.

Fabric:

Egon Shile "Still Life", 1918
And you thought it was only naked minor to draw?

Alfred Sisley. "Still life with her arms". Dead birds are drama in everyday life.

Yet Sisley. Well, I love him!

Gustave Kourba. Apples and grenades on the dish. 1871.

Edgar Dega "Woman sitting at a vase with flowers", 1865
Despite the name, the woman takes a percentage of 30 areas of the canvas, so it found it for a still life. In general, the degas much more flowers loved to draw people. Especially ballerinas.

Eugene Delacroix. "Bouquet".
Well, glory to you, nobody eats anyone and does not shoot anyone!

Theodore Zheriko "Still Life with Three Turtles"
In general, Zhero somehow suspiciously loved the blue corpses and a whole "dismemberment". And his still life is appropriate.

Camille Pissarro "Still Life with Apples and Jug", 1872

Claude Monet "Still-life with pears and grapes", 1867.
He had still life, were, but relatively a bit.

Auguste Renoir "Still Life with a Big Flower Vaza", 1866
He has, compared to the rest, here presented, quite a lot of still lifes. And what! Someone from his contemporaries said that he does not have sad work, and I adore him, so I shoved here. And also because his still lifes are still little known, much less than all these swimsters, etc.

Do you know who?! Pablo Picasso! 1919 year.

Pablo was amazingly productive! Huge number of paintings! And among them, still lifes occupy a much smaller percentage than everything else, and they were mainly "cubist". That is why he fell into a selection. So that you understand how bad it was (but, of course, talented!) And a non-permanent person, look at the picture below. This is also he, and the same year!

Pablo Picasso "Still Life on Dresser", 1919

Paul Hogenes "Drochok", 1889.
Taitians later went, he went to Tahiti in 2 years (now I will finish and I will go in a refrigerator).

Eduard Mana "Carnations and Clematis in a Crystal Vase", 1882
There are still wonderful works, such as "roses in a glass of champagne," but still lifes Mane in his heritage always in the background. And in vain, right?

Francois Mill, 1860s.
Just the lunch of all his peasants and reapers.

Berta Morizo \u200b\u200b"Blue Vase", 1888
Still, not kept!

Frederick Basil. "Still life with fish", 1866
Just and even rude, but I seem to feel even smell of fish! Go, what to throw garbage? ...

Henri "Customs" Rousseau, "Bouquet of Flowers", 1910

Suddenly in the genre, but invariably in style. Simple customs officer has always been faithful to himself.

All, thanks for your attention!
How do you?

PS. And yet Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, for it is beautiful!

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin "Violin in Case", 1916, Odessa Museum of Art
He has quite a lot of still lifes. Beautiful, just wonderful! Such bright, summer - be sure to look at the network, move away towards the red horse and other revolutionary attributes! But, since we have a post about unusual still lifes, I chose the most atypical author.

Thanks again for your attention!

Most considers still lifes with paintings beautiful, but boring. Even the name of the genre - from the French Nature Morte - "Dead Nature", as if it proves: a little interesting here. However, among the still lifes, there are paintings unusual and exciting. True, not always, their unusual is visible at first glance: sometimes you need to look at, and sometimes learn and the history of the painting. About the most interesting still lifes with food - in our article.

Giuseppe Archimboldo "Portrait of Emperor Rudolph II in the image of a vertoon", 1590

Despite the name of the picture, the historians of art determine its genre not otherwise as "portrait still life." And here it is difficult to disagree with them: all the same, it will not be possible to call it an ordinary portrait. The picture belongs to the brush of the Italian artist of the XVI century Juseppe Archimbold, who in the twentieth century was proclaimed the forerunner of surrealism. At his paintings, Archimboldo portrayed human faces in the form of compositions from vegetables and fruits, crustaceans and fish, often even with portrait similarity. It is known that Emperor Rudolf II was delighted with his "edible" portrait and very generously awarded the artist. Among the portrait still lifes, Archimboldo has and completely unusual - "flutter": just turn the picture of 180 degrees to see a completely new image. So, the portrait of the "gardener" when turning becomes still life "Vegetables in a bowl", and the portrait of the "cook" turns into an still life with piglets on a dish.

It is in the work of the Dutch and Flemish artists of the XVII century, still life finally approved as an independent genre of painting. Still lifes Franx Sneders are made in the Baroque style - they are dynamic, abundant, colorful. Sweeping from the table Iscin-black peacock, a luxurious red lobster on a blue meal, a motley dying on the table, yellow and green and melons ... Despite the "dead nature", the picture is full of life and as if permeated by the movement. And the dog quarreled under the table and the cat only harmoniously completed the already living kitchen scene.

French artist Paul Serousye spoke about the fruit Cezanne: "About the apple of an ordinary artist will say:" He wants to eat. " About Apple Cesanna: "How beautiful is." His apple does not decide to clean, you want to copy it. " And indeed, Cezanna had "special relationships" with apples: he considered them perfect creations both in shape and color. It is known that Cezanne even said: "I obey Paris with my apples." On the simplest examples, he sought to show the true beauty of nature. One of the young artists visited Cesanna, when he worked on one of the still lifes, and was amazed: "Cezanne began to lay out fruits, selecting them so that they contrasted with each other, and watching the appearance of additional colors: green on red and yellow on blue . He moved to infinity and turned the fruit, putting coins into one and two su. All this Cezanne did leisurely and carefully, and it was clear that this lesson delivers him true pleasure. "

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin "Morning Still Life", 1918

At first glance, the painting "Morning still life" is simple and simple, but if you look at, you can notice interesting details, for example, reflected in the kettle of the red cat - perhaps he lies on the host's knees. In addition to the cat's cat in the picture "gives out" and a dog - she looks straight on him in a patient waiting. So in still life, the presence of a person, although the artist did not draw it. The items in the picture are shown a bit, but most of them are endowed with shine: a nickel-plated kettle is purchased to the shine, glitters a glass jar with a bouquet of wildflowers, glitters and egg shell. The light glare is on the tabletop, saucer, a glass with tea, who has loved silver spoons. The painting "Morning still life" is full of bright light, it transmits a feeling of morning freshness and peace.

Among the still lifes of the Spanish artist-surrealist there are many quite "ordinary" - "Still Life" of 1918, still lifes the fish "Fish" of 1922 and "Bread Bread" in 1925, "Still Life with two" 1926, etc. However, the most famous from still lifes Dali It is a "lively life" ("moving still life"), written during his passion of physics (mainly nuclear and quantum). Dali himself called this period - from 1949 to 1962, "nuclear mysticism". At that time, Dali did away with the "staticness" in the paintings and began to represent matter in the form of particles. Even in still life, items lost their absolute immobility and gained a crazy movement that does not meet our ideas about reality.

David Sterleberg "Selenki", 1917

David Sterenberg is often called the "artist of still life." Its paintings are inherent expressiveness of images, planar construction space, clarity and synthesis of drawing. Most often, the attention of the artist attracts simple things, for example, scanty soldering time products - black bread and herring. ATTENTION The artist pays to details and texture - a wooden countertop, a piece of bread, brilliant scales of fish, clearly spelled out in the "Hedgles". The picture is symbolic and expressive, she better than any words talk about dramatic post-revolutionary years. No less interesting and other minimalist Steneberg still lifes-- "Still-life with candy", "Prostokvash", "Cake" (see below in the gallery).