Analysis out of the box

Food, a sign of the times

Since antiquity, representations of food have consistently captured daily life through the symbolism of the meal, the mystical still life and naturalist descriptions… On the border between the sacred and the profane, the ritual of the meal has marked the imagination and characterized societies, from animists to the modern day : only a few hundred years separate Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper (1494) and Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass (1863). In the West, the various approaches to the still life reflect so many historical and philosophical differences : life permeates the anthropomorphic portraits of Arcimboldo, the naturalist rupture of Rembrant’s Cow Carcass, and Cezanne’s delicate studies of […]

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