Art Essay Example: Still Life
Still life is a type of painting. It’s a picture of objects that don’t move. The artist looks at objects, like vases, fruit, bottle’s flower’s and studies the way the light hits the objects, the shadow’s and the shape.
Archie Forrest is a Scottish artist, who was born in 1950. Archie attended the Glasgow school of art in 1969 and left in 1973. He then spent 7 years teaching pupils as an art tutor. In 1985 he stopped teaching and completely devoted him time, to making art. Forrest’s work is very popular and has appeared in many different galleries throughout Scotland. He is now aged 62 and still continues to contribute his work.
‘Wee group’ is an example of Archie’s work. The drawing consists of many random objects on an old wooden table. The viewer mainly focuses on the table, as all the objects are found on it. The object used are, various fruits scattered around, a vase with many different coloured flowers, a uniquely patterned jug and an old clothe hanging off the edge of the table. This is an interesting combination, as these objects would not normally be found together.
The drawing is split up into three sections, the foreground, the background, and the midground. The underneath of the table is the foreground, the objects on the table are the midground, and the background is a plain and boring wall.
It’s also sectioned using horizontal and vertical lines. The way the fruit is placed makes a horizontal line, the table, cloth, jug and vase are all vertical lines. The objects that make up the drawing are all in very similar colours, like warm pale pinks, blues and creams. The horizontal objects are all in very different shades from the vertical objects, the horizontal objects are bright orange, red and green.
The picture as a whole has a warm feel to it. As the background and midground colours are pale shades, like lime green and cream, this makes the painting less intense. However even though the colours used for the fruit are bright and bold, it still
Archie Forrest is a Scottish artist, who was born in 1950. Archie attended the Glasgow school of art in 1969 and left in 1973. He then spent 7 years teaching pupils as an art tutor. In 1985 he stopped teaching and completely devoted him time, to making art. Forrest’s work is very popular and has appeared in many different galleries throughout Scotland. He is now aged 62 and still continues to contribute his work.
‘Wee group’ is an example of Archie’s work. The drawing consists of many random objects on an old wooden table. The viewer mainly focuses on the table, as all the objects are found on it. The object used are, various fruits scattered around, a vase with many different coloured flowers, a uniquely patterned jug and an old clothe hanging off the edge of the table. This is an interesting combination, as these objects would not normally be found together.
The drawing is split up into three sections, the foreground, the background, and the midground. The underneath of the table is the foreground, the objects on the table are the midground, and the background is a plain and boring wall.
It’s also sectioned using horizontal and vertical lines. The way the fruit is placed makes a horizontal line, the table, cloth, jug and vase are all vertical lines. The objects that make up the drawing are all in very similar colours, like warm pale pinks, blues and creams. The horizontal objects are all in very different shades from the vertical objects, the horizontal objects are bright orange, red and green.
The picture as a whole has a warm feel to it. As the background and midground colours are pale shades, like lime green and cream, this makes the painting less intense. However even though the colours used for the fruit are bright and bold, it still