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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 ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has been ...

Life isn't still. Paintings don't have to be either. And now, thanks to Seattle-based artist Scott Garner, still life art is catching up with the times. He's created an interactive gallery piece ...

One hundred and ninety-seven years after opening its doors as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures, the Museo del Prado in Madrid inaugurated its first-ever exhibition dedicated to the work of ...

When Juan Sánchez Cotán painted this masterpiece, no one even knew what a still life was Coming into the Art Institute of Chicago off that great city’s streets (where, as Saul Bellow wrote, everything ...

For centuries, artistic genres were placed in a hierarchy, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Top came history painting – stagey renditions of biblical and classical scenes. Next came portraits, then ...