Using Composition as a tool

Still Life With Watermelon, by Fernando Botero, 1992

This Still is most interesting to me because it doesn't look like someone placed these objects down to paint. It looks like somebody was using the objects like the fork and knife and cutting the watermelon, etc. Not only that, but the balance of the objects in the way they are placed makes it look like something is going on, or like a person is somehow involved without actually being in the painting. Same with the contrast, form, and shadows of the objects.