STILL LIFE PAINTINGS

3 by 79. 8 centimeters which have the medium of oil on canvas. The painting belongs to the iconographic type, and this kind of art is common in many rooms of Netherland. The artist De Heem's artistic brilliance provides a seductive realism and with the exemption of the cherries all the fruits from the autumn harvest. However, still to life with a skull and a writing quill is the art painted by Pieter Claesz a Dutch around 1596 to 1660. There is a glass that is beautifully painted to the right, and it is reflecting the window of the room that the artist is in and this kind of reflection shows that life is passing by for there are more real things that indicated in the opposite direction.

This kind of painting portrays both the vanity of knowledge and knowledge of vanity that the artist of this picture is displaying his sense of the mandate. Still-life fruit, flowers, glasses, and lobster The artwork was painted in 1660's by a well-known artist HEEM, Jan Davidsz and on the oil on canvas with the dimensions of 87. 5 by 72. 5 centimeters. The violin is a musical instrument who’s the performance situations, and notions were popularly associated with still life paintings. Those objects may seem inappropriate to be included in the art, but they symbolize and reflect both the spiritual and earthly life Jan Davidsz in his portrayal of the still-life Fruit and Lobster presents the viewers with an inviting feast of fruits which would have been imported to the Netherlands at a high cost.

Despite being demonstrating luxuriousness of the objects, the skills used to present the painting also portrays a warning against the temptation of the excessive luxury. Both works are fine arts primarily consisting of the arranged objects which are laid out on the surface. The concepts derived from these paintings are similar because they try to demonstrate the significant meaningless of the earthly pursuits and goods as compared to the eternal nature of the real Christian values. Various objects have been used to illustrate the end of life, for instance, the skull and the diminishing smoke from the lamp also the chronometer shows that time is passing. Therefore, the artists of distinct paintings demonstrated multiple objects and concepts in common. Bibliography Marcolli, Matilde.