Théo van Rysselberghe – Plum Applesauce
Théo van Rysselberghe, Still Life with Plums (1926), oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, Private collection As a neo-impressionist painter, Belgian-born Théo van Rysselberghe’s work embraced the ordered application of pure colour. In the painting Still Life with Plums (1926), created the year of his death, van Rysselberghe abandoned his earlier pointillist technique in favour of...
Feasting on Art Recipe Contest II
I am pleased to announce the opening of the 2nd annual Feasting on Art Recipe Contest to commemorate the two-year mark of this blog. Between now and March 21st, submit your best cheese recipes to win a cookbook and to help me celebrate another year of food & art! Floris Gerritsz van Schooten, A Still...
William Joseph McCloskey – Oven Candied Tangerines
I read the essay Borderland by M.F.K. Fisher on a sunny afternoon during a fleeting hour of leisure. The title gave no hint to the topic of the essay, yet within the first few sentences, the words began to resonate. Speaking of the simple pleasures of food, the methodological preparation of the tangerines reveals that...
Colour Yellow – Wolfgang Laib – Pollen and Turmeric Rice
Subtleties of taste, texture and tone – a simple meditation on the infinite. Made of rice and pollen meticulously mounded across the floor, Wolfgang Laib’s 2007 work, Ohne Zeit – ohne Ort – ohne Körper, acts as an ephemeral testimony to existence in its rawest forms. Amidst the grid work of rice mountains, the glowing...
Colour Yellow – Gustavo Montoya – Banana Flan
Yellow is a colour of juxtapositions. In the natural world, animals and insects cloak their bodies (often in conjunction with the colour black) to signify poison, danger. Likewise, it is the colour of death, the sallow skin of a sick person and the brilliant autumnal yellow of leaves before they fall to the ground. The...
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas – Cabbage-Wrapped Meatballs
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Still Life with Vegetables (1976), oil on board, 24 x 34 cm, Private collection Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas was recognised for his cubist work but spent the majority of his career concerned with the Greek landscape. He was considered one of the foremost proponents of Greek Modern Art and spent a large part of his...