NATURE MORTE

Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- a nd seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical s upremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: dead nature). Whether thro ugh painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries-old tradition to create wo rks of con...[Read more]