For Digital Art II Students: Still Life with View

All the slides up to nearly the very end show still life images that incorporate some additional imagery, most often in the form of a view seen through a window, but sometimes in terms of background imagery within the same imagery. There are many examples of “pictures within pictures.” Again, sometimes the picture within a picture is what’s framed by a window. But, sometimes, that “picture” is a postcard or a painted image hanging on a wall behind the still life. Our interpretation of “Still Life with View” is going to be fairly broad and inclusive.

The following still life is a bit different, and I’m including it here for slightly different reasons as compared to all the others. I found this still life on a section of the website of the National Gallery of Art devoted to kids and their creativity. They present it there as an example of a collage still life based on compositional motifs of the “Old Master” painters, but created using more contemporary elements and methods. Because I’m giving you some options that involve incorporating painting, drawing, and other sorts of mark-making along with the incorporation, via collage, of other (e.g., photographic) elements, I thought this was relevant. This is also a good example of a synthesized still-life: the objects were not all actually there at once. I am giving you the option of doing this same sort of synthesizing work yourselves.