The British painter Sir Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses of the 1770s and 1780s, reiterated the argument for still life to the lowest position in the hierarchy of genres on the grounds that it interfered with the painter's access to central forms, those products of the mind's generalising powers.
O pintor británico sir Joshua Reynolds nos seus Discourses dos anos 1770 e 1780, reiterou o argumento de que o bodegón tiña a posición inferior na xerarquía dos xéneros baseándose en que interfería co acceso do pintor ás formas centrais, aqueles produtos dos poderes generalizadores da mente.