Still life is about more than just the objects in front of you – composition and lighting do the heavy lifting, accounting for about 70 per cent of the impact. The rest is observation and execution.

N early every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas.

Except there was an art book sitting on a little ottoman in front of me, and on the cover of it was a still-life painting. It was a 17th century Dutch breakfast painting.

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An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

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The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has announced the opening of “Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent ...

Still life depicting two apples, a bunch of grapes on a small grape vine, and two unshelled almonds. ... Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums Topic Still Life--Fruit--Apple Still ...

Art & Tech X-Ray Analysis of Gauguin Painting Reveals Hidden Details… and a Dead Beetle. The artist's feline still life harbors more than one critter.

Noah Verrier’s oil painting of an Uncrustables sandwich sold for $4,999. ... Fla., has carved out a lucrative niche on social media with his still life paintings of junk food.