Henri Fantin-Latour – Pistachio Rose Water Macarons
Henri Fantin-Latour, Bouquet of Roses (1885), oil on canvas, 38.9 x 46.3 cm, National Gallery of Canada Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter known for both his flower paintings and group portraits. His style was very precise and he adhered to traditional techniques even though his contemporaries were the radical artists Édouard Manet and Pierre...
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Crespelle with Bacon Mushroom Ragu
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Vegetable Gardener (c.1590)Oil on wood, 35 x 24 cm, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy Italian painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo was know for his portraits but unlike his peers of the 16th century, the faces he depicted were composed of individual objects grouped in a very specific and deliberate way. Out of his...
Édouard Manet – Almond Cake with Grapes & Peaches
I was given the opportunity along with a handful of other food bloggers to submit a guest post to the wonderful site The Kitchn. This is the second time I have worked with a still life by Manet and you can find most of the general information about his life and art in my previous...
Andy Warhol – Tomato Soup Cake
Let me first point out that if you decide to make this cake for anyone, call it by its other name, ‘Mystery Cake.’ I first heard of Tomato Soup Cake when I was flipping through a Michigan cookbook while working at a living history museum. This was after my Freshman year of college when cooking...
Paul Gauguin – Caramelized Apple Omelet
Paul Gauguin, Apples and Bowl (1888), oil on canvas, 27 x 35 cm, Private Collection Paul Gauguin (full name Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin) was a Post-Impressionist painter whose art heralded the return to the pastoral (idealized landscapes) and Primitivism. He was a major influence in the development of Modern art with his bold colours and design...
Georgia O’Keeffe – Apple Crisp with Caramel Sauce
Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Apple on a Blue Plate (1922), oil on canvas, 35.5 x 40.6 cm, Private Collection Georgia O’Keeffe is primarily known for her union of abstraction and representation in her works of flowers, rocks, shells, and animal bones. Her flower still life paintings are usually of a single bloom that completely fills the...