32: Still Life Lives On

Still life normally conjures images of vases lushly filled with flowers and bowls of fruit, or famous artworks from the Golden Age of Dutch art in the 1500s and 1600s. But could a Big Mac and a COVID test also be worthy of immortalisation on canvas? Still life painting wallowed at the bottom of the hierarchy of genres established by the  French Académie de peinture et de sculpture. With his love of academia, it's no wonder that Dad also puts paintings of commonplace, inanimate objects at the bottom of his own hierarchy. But could the contemporary still life paintings of Noah Verrier change his mind? See images here!