FOR the Renaissance masters, details of flowers and fruits were like armor and rich fabricsjust opportunities to show off their technical virtuosity. Their great central passages focused on what they deemed to be nature's sublime creation: man. But through the centuries the viewpoint has changed. Today still life has become for many artists an intimate proving ground for their own vision and expression. The very fact that the inanimate objects grouped together are from everyday life provides the challenge to infuse them with what one of the greatest still-life painters, Paul Cézanne* called "an impulse that only those possessed of true...
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