Food
Food as still life, feast, satire, ritual and even raw material, from market stalls to shared meals.
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Food in art ranges from offering and still life to satire, feast and edible material. Pieter Aertsen's Butcher's Stall (1551) piles carcasses and sausages before a small scene of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, and around 1602 Juan Sánchez Cotán set a quince, a cabbage and a melon in a stone window. Annibale Carracci's The Bean Eater (c. 1580–90) catches a labourer mid-mouthful, and Giuseppe Arcimboldo composed the emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590–91) entirely from fruit and vegetables.
Clara Peeters hid tiny reflections of herself in the pewter of her breakfast pieces, and Jean-Siméon Chardin hung a gutted skate at the centre of The Ray (1728). In the 1960s Daniel Spoerri glued the remains of real meals to tabletops and hung them upright. Rirkrit Tiravanija has cooked and served Thai curry to visitors as art, and Janine Antoni chewed a 600-pound cube of chocolate for Gnaw (1992).
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