The Lives of Objects: Still Lifes from the MONA Collection

Nancy Freidemann-Sanchez, Cornucopia (tryptych), collage, ink on Tyvek, 2016, Museum Purchase made possible by Cliff & Mary Hillegass Trusts
Nancy Freidemann-Sanchez
Cornucopia (tryptych), collage, ink on Tyvek, 2016
Museum Purchase made possible by Cliff and Mary Hillegass Trusts

Still life is a genre in art, otherwise known as a category of subject like landscape or figurative, that depicts human-made or natural objects. At first mention, the term may invoke images of flowers in a vase or an arrangement of fruit, but the broad definition of still life means the genre has seemingly endless possibilities.

 

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