C?zanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: ⌠He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything.■ In addition to those of C?zanne, this book is devoted to still-life paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and Picasso.