still life
still objects which are used as models in painting
Still life
This article is about Still Life (or still lifes as plural), the art form. For other uses of the phrase, see
Still Life (disambiguation). A still life is a work of
art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, plants and natural substances like rocks) or man-made (drinking glasses, cigarettes, pipes, hotdogs and so on). Popular in Western art since the 17th century, still life
paintings 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
portraiture.
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still life
Noun
1. a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers
(hypernym) painting, picture
still life
Synonyms and related words:
abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, art object, block print, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, collage, color print, composition, copy, creation, cyclorama, daub, design, diptych, engraving, fresco, grotesque, icon, illumination, illustration, image, kitsch, likeness, master, masterpiece, masterwork, miniature, mobile, montage, mosaic, mural, museum piece, nude, old master, panorama, pasticcio, pastiche, photograph, picture, piece, piece of virtu, print, representation, reproduction, stabile, stained glass window, statue, stencil, study, tableau, tapestry, triptych, virtu, wall painting, work, work of art
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