Still life oil painting

Still life oil painting
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What is it "Still life", It is only Oil Painting?
Still life oil painting this is the term used today due to the evolution (degradation?) of the language. Look at an incomplete list of alternative words: Florals, Flower Pieces, Breakfast, Dessert, Game, Fruit Pieces, Kitchen Pieces .All these names reflect entire epochs in still life oil painting. In the 20th century we like to make generalizations, well, let it be still life, on any icon to view a larger version of that painting.
The French term for still life, "nature morte" translated literally would mean "dead nature". And dead nature does not exist. This depreciative and punitive term was imposed by the learned pedants of the seventeen century in France to categorize and characterize these paintings, but the pictures reveal a nature that is other than dead and a death that is anything but natural.Still life is not just a decorative art. I mean the classical oil painting which does not only decorate the wall: it cuts it through and opens a three-dimensional space of associations. At the present time, despite the avalanche of new styles and schools, the classical oil painting continues to exist. Unfortunately, it is not taught anywhere, but many young artists feel the approach of the 21st century and are trying to do something by themselves.Renaissance is inevitable, the world culture has come to the critical point. Long live the classical still life! A still life plural still lifes is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting. With origins in ancient times and most popular in Western art since the 17th century, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life oil paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and