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Animating the Inanimate: The Life of Still Life 12/15/2001 - 5/12/2002 The Life of Still Life on December 15, 2001. This visually stunning selection of watercolors, pastels, lithographs, etchings and engravings, from the early eighteenth through the late twentieth centuries, is drawn from the permanent collection of the Norton Museum of Art. Including such seminal artists as Georges Braque, Bernard Buffet, Charles Demuth, Jim Dine, Pablo Picasso, Gino Severini, Charles Sheeler and Joseph Stella, the exhibition surveys a wide-ranging and diverse spectrum of works on paper featuring American and European masters. Still life has been a genre of art since classical times, though it did not develop as a significant independent artform until the 17th century. It flourished initially in Holland, where the Reformation discouraged religious imagery, forcing artists to seek new subjects for their works. Prior to that time, the precursors of the autonomous still life included in their works vignettes recording the rediscovery of the physical world, the beauty in nature and scientific illustration. Still lifes in the exhibition occasionally combine a sheer delight in the appearance of objects with religious and moral symbolism, while other works serve as points of departure for stylistic and visual experimentation. Today, still life is a genre that continues to flourish and enjoys considerable interest among both artists and collectors. The founder of the Norton Museum of Art, Ralph Norton, and his wife Elizabeth, shared an enthusiastic interest in the still life genre, judging from the large number of works in a variety of media that are included in the permanent collection. Animating the Inanimate: The Life of Still Life encourages the public to draw comparisons between major, large-scale paintings in the collection, and more intimate works on paper in the exhibition. 
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