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What is a still life?

At best a study in elegant minimalism. Interestingly, Still Life as a subject has one of the most formative signatures of understanding the impact of creating a language from the collection of everyday objects. Penn created a series from objects and the idea of materialist echoing its own nuances. Perhaps this is seen in his work Bread, Salt and Water which is one of the works at Christie’s. Three substances rather as well as objects of different degrees of cohesive compositions like the sandy texture of salt, the grainy viscosity  of bread and the transparent purity of a glass of water all stand and talk to each other in a visible ensemble of sorts.