In still life painting, the set-up is everything. ![]() The motif invokes Chardin, but without overt allusion, affect or irony. The peach seems obdurate in its peachiness. The handle of the popper protrudes about an inch above the table, giving a sense of space and depth, telling us something about scale (we now know just how far that salt shaker stands from the edge of the table). The foil balloon of the corn popper shines beside a pair of soft hot cross buns, a salt shaker and a peach. In a painting from the 1990s, Still Life with Corn Popper, Anderson again takes five unprepossessing objects and arranges them on a bare counter.
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