Soft Colors 2

This is a digitally enhanced version of a magazine paper collage. The pretty blue vase was a perfume or cologne bottle in an ad, The leaves and... more

by Sarah Loft

Title

Soft Colors 2

Artist

Sarah Loft

Medium

Mixed Media - Collage/digital

Description

This is a digitally enhanced version of a magazine paper collage. The pretty blue vase was a perfume or cologne bottle in an ad, The leaves and petals were constructed with cut images of fabric and clothing. I enjoy making flower arrangements (with actual flowers) so the inclination to use that theme in my collage work is very natural.

Per Wikipedia: 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.).

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. A still-life form gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the English term still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted.

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Featured in the Premium FAA Artists group, June 2014.

Featured in the Visions of Spring group, June 2014.

Featured in the Beauty group, September 2014.

Featured in the All Cards for Occasions group, September 2014.

Featured in the Classic Still Life Artwork group, October 2017.

Uploaded

February 28th, 2011