$2,500
Photorealism Still Life Acrylic Painting Flower Photo Realist Orchid, Vivid Blue
By Clarence Measelle
Located in Surfside, FL
Close up of a flower. canvas measures 30 X24 inches. Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo shows th...
Canvas, Acrylic
PEARS IN A METAL VASE - Still life with fruit / Photorealism
By Olga Antonova
Located in New York, NY
Olga Antonova (b. 1956, Volgograd, Russia) completed her classical art training at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1980. She subsequently immigrate...
Canvas, Oil
JAM ON BREAD - Food Still Life / Pop Art / Photorealism / Kitchen
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten or the forlorn, perhaps indications or remnants of a time before.
Canvas, Oil
SLICE OF BREAD WITH NUTELLA - Still Life / Food / Photorealism / Kitchen
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten or the forlorn, perhaps indications or remnants of a time before.
Canvas, Oil
$10,750
"Night Swimming" Contemporary Oil Painting -photorealism with emotional intimacy
By Linda Griggs
Located in New York, NY
oil on canvas, 40"x60" signed on reverse by the artist, Linda Griggs. This striking fine art painting captures the quiet allure of a nighttime swimming pool, glowing against the dark...
Canvas, Oil
$2,850
Contemporary oil painting photorealism closeup lily pad water reflection signed
By Leslie Parke
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Giverny Series 10 April 1995" is an original oil painting on paper by Leslie Parke. The artist signed and titled the work lower right. This piece depicts a lily pad with blooming fl...
Oil
Red Spirals, colorful, superrealism, photorealism
By Doug Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted directly from live observation, Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transfo...
Oil, Canvas
"Harvest Season", Alexander Volkov, 30x40, Oil on Canvas, Photorealism
By Alexander Volkov
Located in Dallas, TX
"Harvest Season" by Alexander Volkov is an original oil on canvas. The photorealistic painting beautifully captures a room full of empty baskets and barrels stacked around a wooden b...
Canvas, Oil
Sweet and Sour
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was s...
Canvas, Oil
$1,280Sale Price|20% Off
Jim's Steaks Philadelphia Iconic Restaurant
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was s...
Canvas, Oil
$1,600
"Rose Garden", Contemporary, Oil, Painting, Framed, Still Life, Photorealism
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in St. Louis, MO
Louis, MO Wesleyan College, Macon, GA "Rose Garden", Contemporary, Oil, Painting, Framed, Still Life, Photorealism
Canvas, Wood, Varnish, Oil
ODD DUCKS #3 (DUCK & MODERN DUCK) - Photorealism / Contemporary Still Life
By Samuel Hung
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Samuel Hung Samuel Hung (b. 1981, Taiwan) is a New York-based artist currently living in Brooklyn. He earned his BFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasa...
Oil, Panel
Unavailable
H 48 in W 30 in
Interior Still Life painting, "Dinner at 6", (Contemporary, Photorealism)
By Gordon Lee
Located in Binghamton, NY
"Dinner at 6" is a medium sized, oil on canvas painting by Gordon Lee. Lee works in the photorealist style to depict an interior scene. The piece features a lightly stained wooden ba...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sold
H 7.88 in W 9.85 in D 1.19 in
Delfware with Redcurrents - still life original photorealism oil painting modern
By Anne Songhurst
Located in London, Chelsea
This original still life study by Anne Songhurst imparts stunningly palpable attributes in portraying a delectable arrangement in a posh porcelain bowl. The artist achieves a convinc...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 31 in W 25 in
Photorealism Still Life Acrylic Painting Flower Photo Realist Orchid, Vivid Blue
By Clarence Measelle
Located in Surfside, FL
Close up of a flower. canvas measures 30 X24 inches. Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo shows th...
Canvas, Acrylic
FUSION, photorealism, still life of glass with berries
By Alexandra Averbach
Located in New York, NY
Artist Alexandra Averbach is continuously inspired and awed by the beauty of nature. In particular, she finds flowers and fruit to be visually striking to view and meditative to pain...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 56 in W 41 in
Large Still Life Photorealism Acrylic Painting Candy Canes in Vase Photo Realist
By Charles Wildbank
Located in Surfside, FL
His signature paintings include a variety of seascapes, florals, still life creations, and portraits.
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 9 in W 9 in
TOMATO, photorealism, vibrant colors, still life, dragon tapestry, kitchen
By Eric Wert
Located in New York, NY
Eric Wert's flowers, fruits, and vegetables are the stuff of a florist's or farmer's perfection-objects of incomparable beauty, hyperrealistic, radiant, and arranged in a tumult that...
Oil, Panel
Onward and Upward - photorealism painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Onward and Upward' depicts a historic San Francisco Presidio building facade with cool shadows and golden light cascading across white walls with blue trees reflected in the window ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Wedding Cake Remake - photorealism painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wedding Cake Remake' depicts a historic San Francisco Presidio building facade with cool shadows and golden light cascading across white walls with faded drapery seen in the windows...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 36 in W 24 in D 1.5 in
Valencia Abstraction - American Academic Realism / photorealism
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Valencia Abstraction' depicts a historic San Francisco Presidio building facade with cool shadows and golden light cascading across white walls with blue trees reflected in the wind...
Canvas, Acrylic
York Patties Original Oil Painting
By Don Kobasky
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Don Kobasky. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly li...
Canvas, Oil
Chips Ahoy Original Oil Painting
By Ralph Stearns
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Ralph Stearns. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly ...
Oil
Robbie The Robot Original Painting
By Cesar J. Santander
Located in Boca Raton, FL
It’s like the scenes from the film “Pleasantville,” where everything goes from black and white to technicolor. Still, photorealism DOES manipulate images of reality.
Acrylic, Panel
Captain America and Iron Man Original Oil Painting
By Doug Bloodworth
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Doug Bloodworth. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly...
Canvas, Oil
Candy Store
By Roberto Bernardi
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Roberto Bernardi was born in Todi (Italy) on the 18th of May 1974. He started to paint at a very young age and his first works in oils date back to the first half of the eighties. H...
Oil
Sold
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 1.38 in
French School - French Breakfast Oil Still life/ Photorealism / Food / Kitchen
By Bazevian DelaCapuciniere
Located in Zofingen, AG
🥐☕French breakfast ☕🥐 Typical French breakfast ; coffee and croissant Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 30x30cm ■■ 11,8x11,8 inch ⭐Sustainabilit...
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Sold
H 14.25 in W 16 in
Photorealism Still Life Acrylic Painting of Fruit Photo Realist Melon
By Clarence Measelle
Located in Surfside, FL
Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo shows throughout the US. He is best known for his work in pho...
Canvas, Acrylic
Cerise, bright color, photorealism
By Douglas Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our pe...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 25 in W 19 in D 2.75 in
Wash Day at Susie's / photorealism hyperreal acrylic painting Chinatown SF CA
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Impeccably framed in a museum quality grey hardwood floater frame. Created traditionally with small brushes on canvas. Lynette Cook’s shadow-centric urban scenes — executed using exc...
Acrylic, Canvas
Menchies Original Oil Painting
By Simon Miss
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Simon Miss. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly lik...
Seltzer Original Oil Painting
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Mark Schiff. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly li...
Cupcakes Original Oil Painting
By Simon Miss
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Simon Miss. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly lik...
Canvas, Oil
Chance (Original Oil Painting)
By Doug Bloodworth
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an original oil painting on board by Doug Bloodworth. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet a...
Board, Oil
Community Chest (Original OIl Painting)
By Doug Bloodworth
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting on board by Doug Bloodworth. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, look...
Board, Oil
La Samanna -- Original Oil Painting
By Jim Jackson
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Jim Jackson. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly li...
Canvas, Oil
Fruit Cart Original Oil Painting
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was...
Oil
Shun Lee Original Oil Painting
By Jim Jackson
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Jim Jackson. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly li...
Canvas, Oil
Russian Tea Room Original Oil Painting
By Jim Jackson
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Jim Jackson. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly l...
Oil
Union Oyster House Original Oil Painting
By Jim Jackson
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not a photo. It is an oil painting by Jim Jackson. Photorealism is a genre of oil painting in which a painting, when viewed from ten or twenty feet away, looks exactly l...
Oil
Pops I'm Melting
By Doug Bloodworth
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is a set of three pieces. The other two are portrayed elsewhere on our 1stdibs page. The original oil paintings have now been sold. Offered are signed and numbered limited ed...
Canvas
Sold
H 62 in W 42 in
"Candy Sticks" Contemporary Photorealism Vertical Framed Oil on Canvas Painting
By Alexander Sheversky
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Candy Sticks" is a framed oil painting on canvas by Alexander Sheversky, depicting a highly detailed glass jar filled with various flavors of vibrant candy sticks. The black backgro...
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.
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