Still lifes are colorful, they are placed in the dining room, someone once said that seeing them whets the appetite, which is perhaps the reason why they are placed there.
Still lifes are colorful, they are placed in the dining room, someone once said that seeing them whets the appetite, which is perhaps the reason why they are placed there.
It is the first time I hear that. I would never place it in a dining room, not that I have a dining room. Since these are mainly flowers I wonder how this can whet the appetite.
In the dining room of my apartment I have a still life painting; it's a small painting, and it's customary to place it there.
Interesting but I see it nowhere where I live and cannot remember anyone in my family ever did. Yesterday I saw a painting I would more likely hang up above the dining table
Or
Perhaps it is because a still life reminds us of the painter Jan Steen and the Dutch expression: Een huishouding van Jan Steen (a housekeeping of Jan Steen) which means you have a very dirty and untidy home. Such a still life above the table will not improve the appetite. The table should attract the attention, be neatly set with table cloth and so on. I assume that is why our walls in average are empty and white +perhapso white because the wall is easier to clean and repaint).
A happy Sunday.
Here in Colombia the custom is to place these still lifes in the dining room, they are different customs
Then at least there are still customers buying them. What does yours look like?
One of my cousins gave me the small still life painting I have in the dining room quite a few years ago.
You still didn't say what the painting looks like.
A small painting, like I said, nothing extraordinary
I have no decorations in my apartment, literally nothing.
There's nothing wrong with empty walls. I paint but mine only have two which is enough and it is not even made by made.
I like still lifes, in fact I like everything related to art