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still: a standalone construct

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still1 CONSTRUCTStill lifeNATURE MORTE

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Art history

A painting of inanimate objects

In art history, a still life (nature morte) is a genre of painting devoted to inanimate, usually ordinary things (fruit, vessels, flowers, the remains of a meal) arranged and observed for their own sake. Norman Bryson's Looking at the Overlooked argues that this deliberately overlooked subject matter carries serious meanings about domesticity, abundance, and mortality. The referent is a category of pictures defined by their motionless, low-status subjects, and apart from the word 'still' it has nothing in common with a distillation vessel or a frame pulled from a film.[1]

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A painting whose subject is arranged inanimate objects
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Classified by genre and read through composition, iconography and the handling of objects

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References

  1. Bryson, N. (2004). Looking at the overlooked: Four essays on still life painting. Reaktion Books. (Original work published 1990) ISBN 9780948462061

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