The Modern Pulse of Realism: Why Still Life Matters Now

For too long, we have been told that realist painting is a museum piece—something to be archived behind velvet ropes, smelling of linseed oil and centuries of dust. In a contemporary art world dominated by the conceptual and the abstract, there is a pervasive myth that if a painting looks like the world we actually see, it has nothing new to say.
I disagree. Here are my thoughts.

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