Still Life

There's something a bit old and fusty about the still life genre, isn't there? With life drawing, there's a beating heart at the centre of the subject but still life with its apples and oranges, mugs and jugs just feels a bit, well... still.

Except it's really not. It has a rich tradition within art history and all the movers and shakers from bygone years found drawing and painting inanimate objects in some sort of arrangement endlessly fascinating... Cézanne and Picasso to name two.