Still Life with Lemons reveals Brooker’s masterful combination of representational and abstract modes in another major genre: the still life. The two lemons, the squash, and the dining table cloth have an almost palpable texture, yet the bowl, its shadow, and the background are rendered with precise abstract lines that seem to remove these elements from the reality of the others in the composition. Thus, the viewer is forced to question what is being viewed. Where, precisely, is the line between the material and the immaterial?