Throughout history artists have represented things such as a pear, vase, candle or some drapery. The art is gracefully curved and often with subtle symmetries. The genre earned the name "still life." True, it's inanimate and doesn't move, but "life?" The subjects are usually parts of our everyday domestic lives, and we delight in being reminded that they bring such beauty. The world is too much with us;late and soon. Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Wordsworth. The still life as antidote.
