Andy Warhol – Upside-Down Banana Cake
Andy Warhol, Bananas (1978), polaroid photography, Paul Kasmin Gallery 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...
Frédéric Bazille – Prawn Pho
Frédéric Bazille, Soup Bowl Covers (1864), oil on canvas, 22 x 35 cm, Private Collection 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...
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, Mushrooms (1940), oil on canvas board, 34.9 x 45.1 cm, Tate Collection 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...