The still-life
This genre of fine arts is connected with the images of the inanimate objects or the objects of nature
which are isolated from their essential environment, e.g. the flowers in a vase.
The first examples of the still-life are related to the art of the Antiquity or the ancient oriental fine
art. But finally it formed as a genre of the fine art during the Renaissance epoch in works of the
Dutch artists. The first still-life painting is often told to be the same called work by the Italian artist
Jacob de Burberry. The most active growth of still-life's popularity was in the 16-17th
centuries.
That is connected with the development of the natural sciences and techniques of fine art.
The genre appeared in Russia in the 18th century only. The interest to it wasn't always constant.
Such masters as Surikov, Korovin, Bogomolov, Levitan, Kramskoy turned to this theme. Besides
the images of objects have their own meaning, this way is often used to express the idea with the
help of associations.