Food in Art

[chromedome]

This is AI "art," but it's still pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/mira.gupta.7771/posts/pfbid0P4nNSgi3EGJcVADLuJBGDoVgA9NxGJMTMRheYQ5LpYNxVkyH8rgPFCWuKWLyynafl?__cft__[0]=AZXLppYgs5Esnt4I8YD2X0WjBUCiKQzC6NcJWPLdxkp8tVTcbqsemM3agZFobUAeGItbg7yV1_eX8fB28WNwbK1Wzfrz7pkUPp7QpGsQKP3-rhxlYuD4wDcN5rOZ7fTC-2hwLmO__CXtulwCSzYmTHmlBSElZG2x5a23cYUHiYWS4Q&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

[haresfur]

Targeted advertising worked to get me to an Australian purveyor of Spanish tinned fish. Beautiful labels just might serve their purpose in getting me to explore the contents, too.

[liuzhou]

Takehiro Koshimoto is a Japanese chef and artist who seems to specialise in avocados. This has been dubbed Advocadart by social media. Here are but a couple of examples for review purposes. A search for his name on Facebook, Instagram, etc will reveal several more.

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2024 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

The Vegetable Seller -  possibly Joachim Beuckelaer 1533-150/4 - Audley End House, England.

 

Public Domain

 

 

Edited November 18, 2024 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

The dates in the above post should be 1533-1570/74.

 

Here's another, this time confirmed  as a Beuckelaer.

 

Fish Market

 

 

[liuzhou]

And another Beuckelaer

 

The Butcher

 

 

[Nancy in Pátzcuaro]

When I first saw this topic I immediately thought of Giuseppe Arcimiboldo (1527-1593) who painted portraits composed entirely of fruits and vegetables (among other things).. Something of a gimmick at the time and not taken very seriously by critics, but pretty amazing. Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo and https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arcimboldo&atb=v321-1&iax=images&ia=images1&iax=images&ia=images

 

The paintings "read" normally from a distance but as you get closer you realize that the cheeks of that man are apples.

[weinoo]

3 hours ago, Nancy in Pátzcuaro said:

When I first saw this topic I immediately thought of Giuseppe Arcimiboldo (1527-1593) who painted portraits composed entirely of fruits and vegetables

 

I've seen some of these works in the Louvre...

 

 

 

But it was definitely before this restoration:

 

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/giuseppe-arcimboldo-four-seasons-restoration-louvre-2497463

 

[rotuts]

@weinoo

 

like getting your cataracts taken care of .

[weinoo]

41 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@weinoo

 

like getting your cataracts taken care of .

 

But much cheaper!

[rotuts]

@weinoo

 

Traveling to FR ?  the Baguettes ?  the Pate ?  the Wine ?

 

 my Cataracts  Ops  were completely covered 

 

Im pretty happy , now that I discovered 

 

( as this is a Food Forum )

 

Scrapple , ( Jones )  Air Fried ( from Fz ) 

 

w fresh bread  ( CSO'd )  from TJ's

 

window green onions 

 

maybe a glass of Tj's Plonk  ?

[liuzhou]

Qi Baishi

 

齐白石 (qí bái shí) (1864-1957) was a Chinese artist from my beloved Hunan. He specialised in the natural, including seafood. Born into a poor family, he trained as a carpenter but privately studied art. When he was around 40 years old, he went travelling around China, finally ending up in Beijing where he died. He also managed to find time to breed, having five children with his wife and seven with his concubine. He was the first Chinese artist to sell an artwork for more than 100 million US dollars, joining the likes of Picasso and Van Gogh. Unfortunately, long after he died.

 

In 2008 a crater on Mercury was named after him, not that there is any evidence he ever travelled there!

 

Today, I took possession of a print of one of his many shrimp paintings. Slightly less than 100 million. More like $7.35 USD, although I could have had it unframed for $1.15. Sorry., it was difficult to get a straight on picture without reflections.

 

 

I do find it difficult sometimes to ‘get’ Chinese art but Chinese people have the same feeling about western art. Picasso baffles them.  However, this one (unnamed) I do like. It is now hanging in my kitchen.

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Tropicalsenior said:

To be perfectly truthful, me too.

Picasso was very interested in food and even published recipes in Vogue. He also created many food artworks in paintings but also in ceramics and other media.

 

Here is an article from the BBC on that very subject.

 

BBC Arts - BBC Arts - A feast for the eyes: What Picasso's Kitchen reveals about his art

 

and a couple of recipes from Vogue

 

Haute Cuisine: Picasso’s Recipes from the Pages of Vogue | Vogue

 

 

 

 

[weinoo]

27 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Picasso was very interested in food

 

And drink as well...

 

 

The Absinthe Drinker...(many artists depicted absinthe drinkers)...https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-2.php

 

As well as the absinthe glass:

 

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Picasso cast six bronze copies of Glass of Absinthe from a wax original and decorated each of them uniquely. In this version he broke new ground by incorporating an existing object into his sculpture: a real absinthe spoon nestles between the modeled bronze sugar cube and glass. 

 

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81307