still life
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Many of his wartime paintings are interiors executed on black backgrounds that suggest a kind of indoor nighttime, like the otherwise colorful “Christmas Roses and Saxifrages,” a 1944 still life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Next to the screens of combat videos in Madyar's bunker is artwork from renowned Ukrainian painters, including a still life of flowers by Maria Prymachenko.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
And it continues to be popular today, with dramas and TV shows like Traitors showing there is still life in the murder-mystery format.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
