Feasting on Art Recipe Contest Results
I had a really great time reading all of the entries and am so impressed with the creativity inspired by the Renoir painting. I want to thank you all so much for participating and helping me celebrate the first year of this project. I found it very interesting to see the similarities and differences between...
Food & Art at Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Last week at Eva Breuer Art Dealer where I work as a Gallery Associate, I curated an exhibition from artworks in the stockroom titled Food & Art . Among the still lifes and banquet scenes is Weaver Hawkins’s painting of grapefruit, an artwork I wrote about on this blog in June 2009. EXHIBITION BRIEF: The representation of...
Henri Matisse – Apple & Shallot Croquettes
As a Midwest girl I was very excited when Chicago blogger Dana from Real Food Rehab sent me an email regarding a collaboration. She very kindly interviewed me for her site and we quickly began to assemble ideas. The Art Institute of Chicago has always been very near and dear to my heart (it houses...
John Olsen – BBQ Tikka Prawns
Culinaria – The Cuisine of the Sun is an exhibition of paintings by the artist John Olsen that recently opened here in Sydney at the Tim Olsen Gallery. The show is enjoyable for anyone who is interested in food or art as it contains a collection of paintings in Olsen’s signature squiggly style of all...
Damien Hirst – Cineole Cupcakes
Cupcakes and pharmaceuticals are not a likely combination but I stayed true to the spot painting production and created a slightly different shade for each little cake and arranged them in a random order. The cake is the red velvet variety sans the red colouring. It is moist and rich and wonderfully sour paired with...
Willem Kalf – Papegaaientongetjes (Parrot Tongues)
The day Ozoz’s package from the Netherlands arrived was a very exciting one, not only because of the delicious caramel cookies but also the beautiful cookbook filled with the things I love. Ozoz writes the food blog Kitchen Butterfly and is one of the most dedicated bloggers I read, posting every other day. She kindly...
Feasting on Art Recipe Contest
Hello friends!! On April 3rd Feasting on Art will be one year old! I am very proud of this site and to celebrate I am holding a recipe competition. To perpetuate the dialogue about food and art I want to get all of my readers involved so don’t be shy, even if you’ve never left...
Frida Kahlo – Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread
In the painting Fruits of the Earth (1938-39), Frida Kahlo‘s subjects defy gravity. The foodstuffs sit upon a horizontal picture plane with no shadow, denoting a high perspectival point. There is a particular focus upon the corn, with two ears covered by green husks and one revealing the white kernels. Corn originated in Mesoamerican and...
Antoine Vollon – Parmesan Mustard Shortbread
My favorite recipes are those that intertwine the idea of sweet and savory. When I mentioned to a friend that my next still life painting was titled Mound of Butter (1875-85) she suggested I make shortbread. Updating the typical sweet cookie recipe into a savory biscuit makes the perfect base for a roasted tomato or...
Frida Kahlo – Roasted Chicken with Pumpkin Mole
I tasted my first authentic mole in Mexico City on a History of Art trip to study the art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. With the vibrant paintings swirling through my head, I became completely intoxicated with mole poblano. From the Mexican word molli meaning ‘concoction,’ mole is commonly known in the combined form...
Johann Christian Berndt – Pear, Goat Cheese & Prosciutto Pizza
Johann Christian Berndt was a German copper engraver who worked in Frankfurt in the late-18th and early-19th century. He contributed to the botanical book Vollständige pomologie (Complete Pomology) by Johann Ludwig Christ. Pomology refers to the study and classification of fruit (the word poma from the Latin root meaning tree fruit). Pomologic writings date back...
Review – Taste: Food & Feasting in Art
The representation of food has always had a presence within the realm of the visual arts. The survey show, Taste: Food and Feasting in Art, explores the genre with an assortment of pieces from sculpture to painting to photography all from the Auckland Art Gallery collection. The usual suspects are all present – Warhol with...