What is Still Life?

         Still life is considered as an art of drawing or painting of any household object such as a fruit, a vegetable, or a vase of flowers.  Artists create still life images in order to convey a natural beauty of their subject, a story or idea, or to show the abstract elements expressed in the visual elements.  The art of still life has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.  Subjects in still life usually had to do with some sort of symbolic reference of mythology until the 17th century.  Before the 18th century, still life was thought of as a lower form of art.  The work of Chardin and Cézanne changed these thoughts and still life became more popular.