Still life in Belgium

During the trip in Antwerp, I encountered some still life paintings and famous still-life painters, Alexander Adriaensse, Adriaen van Utrecht and Frans Snyders, in the Rubens House. These painters painted all the ordinary, unanimated objects in the canvas but as they illustrated them so realistic as they gave them lives again. Through these works, you can see how talented these artists are, to play around with the display and balance between the objects and the whole composition. By the composition, the objects work extremely well with each other as they are original a set. Apart from the composition makes a wonderful balance in the paintings, they used colors as well as the lighting effects to control how the audiences’ visual line of sight viewing the works. For example, the work of Snyders on the bottom left, the vivid red color of the lobster catches people’s sight right away when people first saw the painting. And Adriaen van Utrecht’s work in the middle, which added lighting effects to guide people to focus on the middle of the painting and then to see rest of details around the middle area.

I tried to reset the display of my previous illustrations. Instead of just let them sit still on the shelf one by one. I put some of them down, some of them hang and even some overlap on the other. Also, I added some clothes to make the whole setting looks more like still life.