The author quotes Heda as an example of artist's relation to depicted objects.

One corner of the reproduction is turned off. If you look attentively, you will see two holes from buttons. The reproduction was removed, restored, then its corner came off again. It can symbolize different relation to academism in painting during the time - classicism, new movements, return to academism in socialist realism, and its denial again.

Ordinary modern life objects were depicted in the bottom of the painting. The artist showed that utilitarian goods of mass production can be as picturesque as hand-made things in the still-lifes of Dutch masters.

Still-life Breakfast was painted and first exhibited in 1982. The painting was shown only one day. Soviet censors interpreted the painting in absolutely another manner, as comparison and contradistinction of socialist and capitalist ways of life and recommended to withdraw the painting from the exhibition.