A still life is a work of art which represents a subject composed of inanimate objects. Popular in Western art, still life paintings, such as of flowers or fruit, give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portrait.
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STILL LIFE This is the term used today due to the evolution (degradation?) of the language. Look at an incomplete list of alternative words: Florals, Flower Pieces, Breakfast, Dessert, Game, Fruit Pieces, Kitchen Pieces... All these names reflect entire epochs in still life painting. In the 20th century we like to make generalizations, well, let it be still life...
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Still Life Flower paintings at Eugene Gavline page The other still life
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Still life with roses and grapes