{Modern & Contemporary Cakes}

Mondrian
Geometric Pound Cake

Warhol
Tomato Soup Cake

Thiebaud
Pop Art Cupcakes

Hirst
Cineole Cupcakes

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1 Year Ago: Bryant Chapin – Strawberry Shortcake with Blueberry Syrup

Frida Kahlo and her pet deer, Granizo, 1939, photograph by Nickolas Muray

In the book Frida’s Fiestas, Kahlo’s step-daughter Guadalupe Rivera reminisces about unpacking the groceries with Frida after a visit to the market,

“At one point she said to me: ‘Look at this watermelon…! It’s an amazing fruit. On the outside, it’s a wonderful green color, but on the inside, there’s this strong and elegant red and white. The pitaya is a bright red, like a pomegranate sprinkled with black dots. Then there’s the pitahaya. It is fuchsia on the outside and hides the subtlety of a whitish-gray pulp flecked with little black spots that are its seeds inside. This is a wonder! Fruits are like flowers: they speak to us in a provocative language and teach us things that are hidden.” (p.24)

Kahlo later arranged these fruits into a still life painting titled The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened. For her life and art intermingled, she decorated her table and her tresses with fruits and flowers in the same way they were scattered across her canvases. Like the fruit, her art teaches us – the viewers – about her hidden things, thoughts, fears, and emotions.

This is the fifth and final entry in a series of posts examining the the still life paintings by Frida Kahlo. Click the paintings above or the recipe links below to visit the individual posts for more information about Frida.

If you live in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and you see a Wentworth Courier while out and about then check out my interview on page 30. If you are not a Sydneysider you can read it here. I also had an article published in the December 2009 issue of Ceramics Monthly. As a tangent off of my dissertation, the article explores the work of contemporary artists who incorporate methods of repair and use into the finished product. From Bethan Laura Wood’s teacups that stain as you drink them to the delicate drips of gold lacquer on the Reiko Kaneko‘s pieces the idea of use as damage is disregarded and instead embraced. You can read the article online here.

If you enjoyed the recipe for Pumpkin Chipotle Tarteletts with Beetroot Jam & Chevre please vote for it at the Bon Appetit Blog Envy Bake-Off (it is on the 4th page of entries in the pie category.)

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I would like to once again highlight the Arts Monday show on Eastside Radio 89.7FM co-hosted by Laura and Nick. It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the show and I would like to encourage anyone who is remotely interested in art to listen every Monday from 9:30-11:30AM.