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- noun A painting of a
living object that isstationary .
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Examples
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Other works in Christie's sale this time around will include Warhol's Pop riff on the classic still-life, "Four Campbell's Soup Cans," priced to sell for at least $7 million, and Gerhard Richter's blurry-photo Pop painting, "Frau Niepenberg" from 1965, also priced to sell for at least $7 million.
Pop Art to Take Center Stage at Christie's Kelly Crow 2011
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It linked him to tradition, stringed instruments having been a staple of still-life painting in 17th-century Holland and elsewhere.
The Quintessential Guitar Hero Eric Gibson 2011
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Del Monte was also from northern Italy, with a taste for naturalism and still-life painting.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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The following room at the Getty displays a table set with elaborate silver tureens surrounded by tapestries depicting scenes of the hunt and outdoor collations, and four still-life paintings filled with fruit, flowers and game.
With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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A painting of a person or a still-life is a two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional reality and therefore infinitely abstract.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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Karlsruhe Still but Not Quite Life Fruit and flowers are the most commonly known still-life subjects, but Kunsthalle Karlsruhe focuses a new show on a rarely celebrated subgenre: dead animals.
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Laura Glazer , an Albany-based photographer, has documented his efforts since 2009, creating painterly portraits of him at work and still-life photographs of his materials.
His Biblical Journey Is Letter by Letter Rebecca Rothbaum 2011
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While many of his peers photographed elaborate still-life compositions and romantic tableaux in addition to their documentary work, Beato did not.
He Showed Us the Orient That We Wanted to See Lee Lawrence 2011
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A painting of a person or a still-life is a two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional reality and therefore infinitely abstract.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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