Erwin Wurm – Mustard Seed & Garlic Pickles
Erwin Wurm, Selbstporträt als Essiggurkerl, (Self-Portrait as a pickle) (2008)acrylic, acrylic paint, painted wooden platforms, 36 piece installation, © VBK, Wien, 2010 Erwin Wurm’s 2008 series Selbstporträt als Gurken features a collection of 26 realistically sculpted and painted pickles placed on white plinths. According to the media release from Jack Hanley Gallery where the works...
Luis Meléndez – Cucumber Finger Sandwiches
Sometimes the lack of a complicated recipe puts a block on all of my writing efforts. I wonder if it is necessary to share a sandwich recipe so simple that essentially it reads, bread, butter and cucumber – assemble. These dainty finger sandwiches were first made by my friend Mel who lined them up on...
Charles Ethan Porter – Spicy Sautéed Corn
I first tried out this corn recipe on my Thanksgiving menu this year. The spicy corn, brightened with a squirt of lime, proved to be the perfect foil to the buttery and rich dishes I tend to make. I adapted the recipe from the food blog Orangette which recommends eating with cheddar and toast, which...
Andy Warhol – Poinsettia Cocktail
Andy Warhol, Poinsettias (c.1983), synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas, 35.5 x 28cm In the early 1980’s, Andy Warhol created a number of Poinsettia paintings and screen prints to give as gifts to his friends. The ubiquitous Christmas flower became associated with the holiday in Mexico in the 16th century. As instructed by an Angel,...
Albert Anker – Pistachio Cranberry Icebox Cookies
Albert Anker, Still Life: Two Glass of Red Wine, a bottle of Wine; a Corkscrew and a Plate of Biscuits on a TrayOil on canvas, 43 x 40 cm, Private collection The Swiss painter Albert Anker painted scenes of everyday village life. Over his career he painted over thirty still life paintings of both rural...
John Frederick Peto – Old-fasioned Molasses Cookies
John Frederick Peto, The Poor Man’s Store (detail left) (1885)oil on canvas and panel, 90 x 65 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The American trompe l’oeil artist John Frederick Peto depicted ordinary objects at their actual size in his paintings. Peto worked within the genre throughout his career and The Poor Man’s Store is...
Joseph Decker – Peppermint Ice Cream
The peppermint candy, commonly associated with Christmas, makes for a mint-flecked ice cream that is both sweet and soothing. Around the holidays, after countless lavish meals and heavy desserts, a palette cleansing mint dessert perfectly fits the bill. Joseph Decker, Hard Candy, oil on canvas, 22.8 x 35.5 cm, Private collection The German-born artist Joseph...
Julie Green – Four Fried Chicken Legs
The artist Julie Green has been working for more than a decade on her series titled The Last Supper comprised of painted china illustrating the final meal requests of death row inmates in the United States. The menus, gleaned from newspaper clippings and websites humanize a sect of society typically disregarded by the general public....
De Scott Evans – Caramelized Onion Flatbread
De Scott Evans, A Plate of Onions (1889), oil on canvas, 25.4 x 30.4 cm The small canvas, A Plate of Onions (1889), predates the other work by De Scott Evans adapted on this blog. Whereas A new variety try one epitomizes the trompe l’oeil style for which the artist was renowned, the onion painting...
George Lambert – Pan-fried Buttered Cauliflower with a Poached Egg
In the most basic sense, Egg and cauliflower still life (1926) by George Lambert is a study in texture. The bulging florets of cauliflower are offset by the smooth shell of the egg. In a memorable dish, the combination of texture is just as important as the fusion of flavour. Taking a cue from Lambert’s...
Conclusion: The Colour Project
{The Colour Project} redartist – Claude Monet, recipe – Steak Tartareartist – Hung Liu, recipe – Rhubarb Tart orangeartist – Margaret Preston, recipe – Thai Papaya Saladartist – Carsten Höller, recipe – Marinated Chanterelles yellowartist – Gustavo Montoya, recipe – Banana Flanartist – Wolfgang Laib, recipe – Pollen & Turmeric Rice greenartist – Lin Fengmian,...
Colour Purple – Benjamin Roberts – Baked Custard with Plums
Adorning the cloaks and garments of royalty, the colour purple was often called imperial purple due to the close association. The word purple is a derivative of the original Greek porphura, the name of the Tyrian purple dye of antiquity extracted from a spiny snail. The pigment was extremely expensive to produce and only the...