still life

Noun

Meaning

(painting) A work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.

(cellular automata, usually countable) A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next.

still-life (plural still-lifes)

Alternative form of still life

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

still-life

Synonyms

tableau painting mural artwork watercolor work of art old master nature morte

Hypernyms

picture painting

Examples

My first lesson in relativity:.. we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big [his hands outside the shape of a pitcher, then close in] and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right. [Tobey is remembering his Saturday morning painting class]. Mark Tobey

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. Leonard Nimoy

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that. Ben Shahn

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? Richard Corliss

I put it [a still life of a pear, made by Manet there [on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter'], for a pear like that would overthrow any god. Edgar Degas

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. Chuck Close

Close letter words and terms

still in progress still lead counsel still less still more still of the night still open to doubt