What is Still Life?

      Still life is painting or drawing inanimate objects that can be arranged a certain way. Artists create still lifes for many different reasons. They can be to show or reflect the ownership of the object and it's status, to show a symbolic meaning or tell a story, to capture the objects natural beauty, or to express its abstract element of the object's visual elements. Artists use still life as a way to show off their technical skill in painting and have dated back (though not exactly the same) to the time of Ancient Greece and Rome.