Still life

In the style of poetic realism, Marko Čelebonović painted a series of still lifes on which, through selected objects placed on the surface, without pronounced depth and arranged according to artistic feeling, he corresponds with the observer, providing him with a special lyrical atmosphere. The whiteness of three objects in this still life, with a slender little white heron and a plaster bust of a boy in the foreground, puts them on the border with vision, and the background, painted with a monochrome palette in cool green shades, brings the atmosphere of serenity closer to melancholy. The scene, at first glance a "common" representation of still life, is more metaphysical and timeless than real.