Soren Emil Carlsen – Spice-Rubbed Turkey with Cranberry BBQ Sauce
Soren Emil Carlsen was a Danish born artist who was heavily influenced by the work of Jean-Siméon Chardin. His paintings featured simple objects in muted tones. His limited palette produced moody canvases and he worked carefully to create seemingly haphazard compositions. He was a contemporary of William Merritt Chase and was part of the European...
Vincent van Gogh – Chipotle Sweet Potato Mash with Fresh Lime
The dark and dreary interior of Vincent van Gogh‘s The Potato Eaters (1885) is a stark juxtaposition to the colour and the flavor of the sweet potato mash. With Thanksgiving being such an important meal in the North American calendar, I felt it was appropriate to include a painting of a familial supper in this...
Louis Comfort Tiffany – Pumpkin Chipotle Tartelette with Beetroot Jam & Chevre
Louis Comfort Tiffany was originally trained as a painter before pursuing the art of glassmaking in the late nineteenth century. He is linked with the Art Nouveau movement which embodies floral motifs with flowing and stylized curves (1). Tiffany preferred to work with glass that contained mineral impurities and often composed his decorative arts with...
Julian Opie – Green Beans with Red Onion & Mustard Vinaigrette
For fans of the band Blur, contemporary British artist Julian Opie is perhaps best known for the cover design of their ‘Best of’ album. His iconic and often replicated style of flat areas of color delineated by thick black lines is created by reducing photographs to their most basic elements. Still Life with Green Beans,...
Andy Warhol – Upside-Down Banana Cake
The Polaroid camera fit perfectly into Andy Warhol‘s artistic methods of mass production. Warhol began working with Polaroid cameras in the early 1960s and according to him “There is something about the camera that makes the person look just right” (1). Often if Warhol particularly liked a photo he would turn it into an acetate...
Frédéric Bazille – Prawn Pho
Frédéric Bazille was an impressionist painter interested in the effects of light who worked with a dark palette. His peers included Pierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Édouard Manet, although it was the work of Eugène Delacroix that inspired him to become an artist. While simultaneously studying art and medicine Bazille struggled to...
Edvard Munch – Pink Peppercorn Ice Cream & Bittersweet Chocolate Chip Cookies
I am delighted to introduce my October blog collaborator, Siri from The Transplanted Baker. The title of her blog refers to Siri’s status as an American ex-pat living on the west coast of Norway. We decided to continue with the Norwegian theme with the art selection so we chose the famous painting The Scream by...
William Nicholson – Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding
Sir William Nicholson was a British artist who worked in both oil paint and graphic woodcuts. He was known for his minimal landscapes, influenced by the compositional and tonal qualities found in the canvases by Whistler. Throughout his career Sir Nicholson revisited the subject of mushrooms and often painted his still lifes in a small...
Paul Klee – Apple & Red Onion Sauerkraut with Wiener Schnitzel
I am pleased to introduce a new monthly feature to Feasting on Art – blogger recipe collaboration. It is a great way to highlight some of the writers and photographers that I follow and who influence my work. Each collaboration will focus on one painting and two recipes – one sweet and the other savory....
David Shrigley – Chipotle Ketchup & Dark Beer Mustard
Although David Shrigley’s photographs are included in major public museums including the Tate Collection, he is predominantly known for his humorous cartoons like Who I Am And What I Want 26. His drawings often feature text acting as commentary about the image. The art is rife with satire and he depicts the every day life...
Pablo Picasso – Sangria Chicken & Radicchio Salad
After painting his way through first academic realism, then the subsequent Blue, Rose, and African-Influenced Periods, Cubism, Classicism and finally Surrealism, Pablo Picasso arrived at a point in his life where he reflected – not only on his own work but also the paintings of the Great Masters. He produced paintings based on work by...
Piet Mondrian – Pound Cake
This post is inspired by Caitlin Williams Freeman’s Mondrian Cake from the cafe at the San Francisco Museum of Art. I wanted my version to be easily recreated in any home kitchen. The cake was delicious but there are a few things I will change the next time I try this recipe. First, I will...