Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). A still-life form gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings (or photos) of other types of subjects such as landscape or portrait. Still life emerged from the painting of details in larger compositions with subjects, and historically has been often combined with figure subjects, especially in Flemish Baroque painting. Generally a still life includes a fully depicted background, and puts aesthetic rather than illustrative concerns as primary.
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