When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Damien Mammoliti Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting.

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still ...

In a still life painting, the subjects cannot move. The bowl of fruit remains sedentary on the table. The hunk of cheese goes uneaten. The candles do not flicker. That's the rule according to the very ...

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When Zhang Zipiao (b. 1993) was a little girl growing up in China, her mother—a doctor—would often come home after work, turn on the computer and begin reviewing PowerPoint slides and videos of ...

To be human is to be a maker of beauty and a steward of justice. Painting beneath the shifting lights of southern France, artist Paul Cézanne repeatedly turned to a simple composition: a still life ...

Pensionante del Saraceni, "Still Life with Melon, Watermelon, and Other Fruits," c. 1610–20, oil on canvas. Caravaggio’s famed painting “The Cardsharps” is back at the Kimbell Art Museum after a major ...

Precision, observation, and patience come together in this realistic still life fruit drawing. The artwork focuses on ...

Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Reality of Appearance: the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting," Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society (University of California, Berkeley), 1970. "The Peale ...

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 ...