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"Still life is merely a technical exercise, and therefore an unsuitable genre for the expression of ideas or sentiments" Discuss

Still life painting has been positioned at the bottom of the artistry hierarchy, below all other genres of painting. Some people believe that this is because the subject matter holds less relevance to historical progression and/or human emotion, being much more mundane and unimaginative. They may also see it as little more than a practise of painting skills, rather than an expression of ideas, for this reason.
This opinion would come from the idea that still life painting consists entirely of an ‘artist' finding some inanimate object or objects in the room and painting it as it is seen, line for line, without straying from the image they have chosen. With this idea it is clear to think that this practise is merely practise, or a time killer, with none of the ‘artists' own thoughts or emotion being put into the picture. In this practise there is no......


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