still life

Shortly thereafter, Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi both walked away to take a brief rest, leaving the novel chess position sitting alone on a table in the box, like a still life in a museum display.

I doodled a still life, started a draft I’d been avoiding, and, in an attempt at self-care, patted Henry, who snored at my side through the whole sequence.

A sauce, made from the juices of the salt cod, completes the still life.

The artist likes to paint shiny enamel cups, pots and pitchers, which he stacks in teetering columns for still lifes.

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.