Still Life

Examples of Still Life in the following topics:

• Still Life Painting

  • Still life painting flourished during the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic.
  • Early still lifes were relatively brightly lit, with bouquets of flowers arranged in a simple way.
  • Virtually all still lifes had a moralistic message, usually concerning the brevity of life.
  • Bosschaert was an early still life painter who established a dynasty of flower painters.
  • Discuss themes and attributes of 17th century Dutch still life painting

• Flemish Painting in the Baroque Period

  • These genres included history, portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life paintings.
  • Floral still life painting was widespread in 17th century Flanders, popularized by Brueghel the Elder around 1600.
  • Other subjects or subcategories of still life painting included the banquet still life, the animal still life, and garland scenes.
  • Still life paintings often had an underlying moralistic message concerning the brevity of life, a trait exemplified by the "vanitas."
  • A vanitas is a symbolic still life painting that is meant to illustrate the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transience of all earthly pursuits.

• Types of Content

  • Content in art takes the form of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, genre, and narrative.
  • Among them are portraiture, landscape, still-life, genre, and narrative.
  • 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 human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).
  • 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 video and sound.

• Terraforming Mars

  • Terraforming Mars is the hypothetical idea that Mars could be altered in such a way to sustain human and terrestrial life forms.
  • At this point, terraforming Mars is still a hypothetical idea.
  • Although Mars is most like Earth out of all the planets in our solar system, it is still highly unsuitable for life as we know it.
  • There are three major changes necessary for Mars to be suitable for life.
  • This simply means that the surface pressure of Mars would need to be increased to sustain life.

• Seedless Vascular Plants

  • Although seedless vascular plants have evolved to spread to all types of habitats, they still depend on water during fertilization, as the sperm must swim on a layer of moisture to reach the egg.
  • The life cycle of seedless vascular plants is an alternation of generations, where the diploid sporophyte alternates with the haploid gametophyte phase.
  • The diploid sporophyte is the dominant phase of the life cycle , while the gametophyte is an inconspicuous, but still-independent, organism.
  • Throughout plant evolution, there is a clear reversal of roles in the dominant phase of the life cycle.
  • This life cycle of a fern shows alternation of generations with a dominant sporophyte stage.

• Stages in the Product Life Cycle

  • There are four stages in the product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
  • At this stage of the life cycle, the company usually loses money on the product.
  • At this point, there are still relatively few competitors.
  • In the maturity stage of the product life cycle, sales will reach their peak.
  • There is no set schedule for the stages of a product life cycle.

• Early Plant Life

  • A diverse array of seedless plants still populate and thrive in the world today, particularly in moist environments.
  • Most seedless plants still require a moist environment.

• Microbes and the Origin of Life on Earth

  • Soon afterward, new oxygen-breathing life forms came onto the scene.
  • With a population of increasingly diverse bacterial life, the stage was set for more life to form.
  • Extremophiles archaea still thrive in extreme habitats .
  • Life had created the conditions for new life to be formed.
  • Assess the characteristics of pre-life earth and which adaptations allowed early microbial life to flourish.

• Pre-Cambrian Animal Life

  • Early animal life (Ediacaran biota) evolved from protists during the pre-Cambrian period, which is also known as the Ediacaran period.
  • It is believed that early animal life, termed Ediacaran biota, evolved from protists at this time.
  • The earliest life comprising Ediacaran biota was long believed to include only tiny, sessile, soft-bodied sea creatures.
  • While the validity of this claim is still under investigation, these primitive fossils appear to be small, one-centimeter long, sponge-like creatures.
  • Until this discovery, most scientists believed that there was no animal life prior to the Ediacaran period.

• The Cambrian Explosion of Animal Life

  • During the Cambrian period, the most rapid evolution of new animal species occurred, but the cause of this explosion is still unknown.
  • The causes of the Cambrian explosion are still debated.
  • Environmental changes may have created a more suitable environment for animal life.
  • Was there really an "explosion" of life at this particular time?
  • Some scientists question the validity of this idea because there is increasing evidence to suggest that more animal life existed prior to the Cambrian period and that other similar species' so-called explosions (or radiations) occurred later in history as well.