Exhibitions, Italy, Milano, 17 July 2015
The food is an ever present theme in art since ancient representations on floors and on walls of the Greek and Roman dining rooms, as well as during the Renaissance period, especially in Northern Europe-both as an exhibition of wealth and as a symbol of more hidden meanings, related to the transience of life.
Even after, food is the privileged subject of many artists who, in those paintings of still life, refine their technique, study and experience elements and concepts that will deeply change the history of art. Cézanne’s still life, for example, prepares the way to Cubism and beside him Van Gogh’s still life turns into a mirror of sensuous emotions and experiences of great intensity. The same thing happens again from Braque on.
It is thus not a secondary theme and many are the contemporary artists who have confronted with it by means of different materials and techniques, not excluding a refined search that might contend with the extraordinary Flemish paintings and open to other meanings.
Even after, food is the privileged subject of many artists who, in those paintings of still life, refine their technique, study and experience elements and concepts that will deeply change the history of art. Cézanne’s still life, for example, prepares the way to Cubism and beside him Van Gogh’s still life turns into a mirror of sensuous emotions and experiences of great intensity. The same thing happens again from Braque on.
It is thus not a secondary theme and many are the contemporary artists who have confronted with it by means of different materials and techniques, not excluding a refined search that might contend with the extraordinary Flemish paintings and open to other meanings.
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