Looking at Still Life Glasgow Museums Teacher PowerPoint Lessons Artworks from the collection at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum A still life is a drawing or painting that focuses on still objects. The subject matter is inanimate and
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Looking at Still Life Glasgow Museums Teacher PowerPoint Lessons Artworks from the collection at
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum<br>
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A still life is a drawing or painting that focuses on still objects. The subject matter is inanimate and never moves, typically with a focus on household objects, flowers, or fruits. The magic of still life paintings is that they can show us a new way of looking at the ordinary objects around us. Once they are placed into a composition and then captured in paint, ink, pencil etc. - the objects take on a whole new meaning. What is STILL LIFE?<br>
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How do I LOOK at a Painting? Take a Walk!
Allow your eyes to travel from the background to the middle ground and finally to the foreground.
Pick up as many details as you can what objects do you see?
How are they placed and where. Are there notable colours or textures? Jump Right In!
Take a quick look what can you see?<br>
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Composition Composition – this is how objects are arranged. A good composition leads you around a painting and helps create a story for the viewer.<br>
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Viewpoint Viewpoint – this is the height that you appear to be at to see the objects. This can have a dramatic effect on what you are looking at.<br>
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Colour The colours used in a painting are as important as the objects themselves. Artists use colour to express themselves and to make you feel a certain way when looking at a painting.<br>
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Lighting Pay attention to where the light is coming from (from the side, from the front, etc.), and notice how that light creates areas of brightness (HIGHLIGHTS) and darkness (SHADOWS). This is called colour VALUE. Light helps makes the objects look three-dimensional.
A painting is a flat, two-dimensional surface, but in order to make the objects seem more realistic, highlight and shadow can be used to create the effect of form and depth.<br>
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Perspective Perspective is what gives a three-dimensional feeling to a flat image such as a drawing or a painting. In art, it is a system of representing the way that objects appear to get smaller and closer together the farther away they are from the viewer.<br>
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Form and Shape A "Shape" is two dimensional, an area defined by an outline.
A "Form" is a shape that has the illusion of being three-dimensional using shading and/or perspective drawing.
Think of it like:
SHAPE – SQUARE
FORM - CUBE<br>
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You can also view the artworks on our COLLECTIONS NAVIGATOR website.
Simply click on the School Topics and Themes section of the page or use the search bar to view more in the wider museum collection.
If you would like to bring your group to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to view these and other artworks, please book in advance by calling 0141 276 9505 / 9506 or email: museums.schoolbookings@glasgowlife.org.uk. You may wish to check that the artworks you wish to view are still on display, as we do change displays from time to time.
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