I love food.
You’ll learn that as we get to know each other a little better. I love cooking
it, I love eating it, but I also love
looking at it.
Food in art has
kind of been a thing forever. I mean still life paintings? There's food. And it's in art. And it's toooootally super old.
But I think
recently, the relationship between food and art has become a little more diverse
than some scarily realistic fruit on a canvas. I feel like everywhere I turn there's another example of food and art hanging out and producing something pretty cool. Here are some of my favourites...
The
controversial
Food is becoming
political, and wherever there is controversy, art can’t be too far away! Alexis Rockman proves that with his wordless comments about genetically modified
foods.
The thoughtful
Uli Westphal says
some pretty interesting stuff about how we judge our produce aesthetically.
Don’t worry lemon, I think you’re beautiful just the way you are.
The
nice-to-look-at
These works
created by Sakir Gökçebag (yeah, I have no idea how to
pronounce that either.) are right up my alley. The geometric patterns and
shapes are really awesome in themselves, but they’re made that much cooler by
the fact that they are constructed using little ol’ fruit and veg!
The wild and
wonderful
Heston Blumenthal is totally my idol. His little gastronomical performances are mesmerising– the things I would do to get invited to one of his craaaazy dinner parties!
The totally
hilarious
Have you
seen butter? Rotten Tomatoes rated
it pretty abysmally, but I’m pretty easy to please when it comes to movies, so
with the ridiculous premise and fantastic cast, I was sold on this one before
I’d even seen it!
Also, who knew butter sculpture was a real thing!
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I love that food is being appreciated and
explored as a little more than fuel and nutrients (those things are so unimportant, amiright?). who says you shouldn't play with your food!
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