HAMILTON, ONTARIO.- The Art Gallery of Hamilton presents Domestic Poetry, on view through September 30, 2007 and curated by Patrick Shaw Cable. The traditionally humble still life rose to fresh prominence in 19th-century Europe, when newly empowered middle-class patrons provided a substantial market for the genre and still lifes became increasingly accepted by official exhibition juries. By the early 20th century, European modernists such as the Fauves and Cubists embraced still life as a suitable vehicle for the exploration of new concepts of pictorial structure and design. This exhibition features a substantial selection of the gallery’s many beautiful still lifes from the 19th century and earlier and later periods, including still lifes by artists like the 19th-century Realists Théodule Ribot and Antoine Vollon, the Symbolist Félix Vallotton, and the 20th-century Fauvist André Derain and Cubist pioneer Georges Braque.