Huanitas paintings - Huanitas paintings

...A genre of Western painting in which various objects that are immovable by themselves and deeply related to human life, such as cut flowers, fruit, tableware, smoking implements, musical instruments, books, dead fish, and small birds and animals, are freely arranged and painted on a table or other surface. Small living animals such as insects and mice are often depicted in a subordinate role, but birds and plants in their natural form, that is, plants rooted in the soil, do not take center stage, as in the related Oriental genre of flower and bird painting. There are two names for still life: Germanic (English "still life" and German "Stilleben" are both based on the Dutch "stilleven") and Romantic (French "nature morte" and Italian "natura morta"), both of which originally meant "objects that do not move" and were established in the 18th century, somewhat later than the establishment of the comprehensive concept of "still life". ...

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…切花，果実，食器，喫煙具，楽器，書物，死んだ魚や小禽獣など，人間の生活に深いかかわりをもつ，それ自体では動かぬ種々の事物を卓上などに自由に構成･配置して描いた西洋絵画の一分野。昆虫やネズミなどの生きた小動物が従属的に描き込まれることもまれでないが，東洋における関連分野である花鳥画のように，鳥や自然の姿のままの，すなわち土に根を下ろした植物が主役を占めることはない。呼称にはゲルマン語系(英語のstill life，ドイツ語のStillebenはともにオランダ語のstillevenに基づく)とロマン語系(フランス語のnature morte，イタリア語のnatura morta)の二つがあり，いずれも〈動かぬ事物〉を原義として，〈静物画〉という包括的概念の確立よりやや遅れて18世紀に成立した。…

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