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Still life   /stɪl laɪf/   Listen
adjective
Still  adj.  (compar. stiller; superl. stillest)  
1.
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. "Still as any stone."
2.
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still. "The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still."
3.
Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. "When all the woods are still."
4.
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. "A still small voice."
5.
Constant; continual. (Obs.) "By still practice learn to know thy meaning."
6.
Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Still life. (Fine Arts)
(a)
Inanimate objects.
(b)
(Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.
Synonyms: Quiet; calm; noiseless; serene; motionless; inert; stagnant.


noun
Still life  n.  
1.
A type of painting in which inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit are represented.
2.
The inanimate subject matter of a still life painting or photograph; as, to painted only still life.





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"Still life" Quotes from Famous Books



... arranged, as may be well seen in an etching of Rembrandt's of a spotted shell, which he has made altogether sublime by broad truth and large ideality of light and shade; and so I have seen frequent instances of very grand ideality in treatment of the most commonplace still life, by our own Hunt, where the petty glosses and delicacies, and minor forms, are all merged in a broad glow of suffused color; so also in pieces of the same kind by Etty, where, however, though the richness and play of color are greater, and ...
— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin
... still life ... the high-lights shine Hard and sharp on the bottles: the wine Stands firmly solid in the glasses, Smooth yellow ice, through which there passes The lamp's bright pencil of down-struck light. The fruits metallically gleam, Globey in their heaped-up bowl, And there are faces against ...
— The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems • Aldous Huxley
... all, there is no picture of flowers, or still life, or even of landscape, that will interest long. You must be very solitary here at times—that is, you must have a great deal more resource than I, or, indeed, almost anyone I know, or this solitude must at times be oppressive. I hope so, ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... and fast and far they hied O'er dale and desert, wood and plain, each to his ingle-side! They hid themselves so closely that no hunter cared to roam Where these the timid subjects each had fashioned him a home! They were too wise for Teddy and they still life's blessings share, Though Teddy went a-huntin' them all ...
— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
... could while there was still life left in the herd, but the cattle were too far gone for droving. We managed to collect a hundred or so—sent them in trucks from Crocodile Creek Terminus, for boiling down and netted about thirty shillings a head on them. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed


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