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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, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Graeco-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. Still life 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. Early still-life 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 vid...

I am a professional full time artist living in Bucharest,Romania. I paint for over 25 yers in different technique :oil on canvas,acrilic and tempera on canvas,oil on wood,oil on leather,on copper or otheder metals,acuarelle on paper,watercolor on leather,egg tempera on paper or wood ect. I love to experiment with colors on various materials.My spiritual mentor is Leonardo da Vinci. My personal web site is www.vicart.ro "Vali Irina Ciobanu creates a concept of modernity as an opposite of abstraction, based on some recuperated easel practices of ancient age, some even in the Renaissance and having the spiritual support of a cultured audience. She creates her paintings using a very old technique, inspired by that of Leonardo da...