Nearly 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. But that’s a ...

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Thiebaud’s “luscious yet unsettling” still lifes make for an “excellent” exhibition, said Alastair Sooke in The Telegraph. His depictions of ordinary snacks are both “irresistible and brilliantly ...

When Juan Sánchez Cotán painted this masterpiece, no one even knew what a still life was Coming into the Art Institute of Chicago off that great city’s streets (where, as Saul Bellow wrote, everything ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

For generations, an unassuming still life gathered dust on the walls of an old private school in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Now, researchers have learned that it was likely made by an old Dutch ...

MILFORD — The New Hampshire Antique Co-op is presenting The American Still Life: Two Centuries of Timeless Tradition, an art exhibit celebrating the enduring beauty of still life painting from the ...