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still life

noun as in inanimate object painting or photo

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The music gives the impression that there is still life here.

The next minute they are frozen in an eerie, extended tableau vivant——a still-life that's not actually still.

The image gives a new take on Sherrie Levine-ish appropriation, getting at it through full-blown still life.

All appropriation has its roots in still life – on the copy-stand, at least – but normally the context is cropped out.

Every still life is secretly cinematic, some version of the freeze-frame.

As for fur, and all that sort of thing, treat it as you would any other texture-problem in still life.

Into the suburban still-life of the German schools of art not a sound made its way of what was taking place elsewhere.

In one body, however, there was still life, and that happened to be the body of the battalion commander.

Her little boy, born just before his father's death, and upon whom she doated, was a magnificent piece of still life.

Her father insisted that she draw from still life and she had been using a distant tree as her model.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to still life, such as: nature morte, and study in still life.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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