Definitions for "Still-life"
A visual art genre where objects are arranged, usually in a natural setting, and typically painted life-size. Subjects can be quite varied but commonly have included books, flowers, fruit, fabrics and jars. Still-life painting flourished among Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. Jean Chardin was the most universally admired painter of still-life works. Chardin painted many pictures of everyday items, including kettles, vegetables, and earthenware vessels, with superb modeling of color, light, and texture.
Painting of objects, as opposed to figures or landscapes.
a painting or drawing of a group of inanimate objects contrived by the artist