food writing

Food in movies is never only about nourishment. A meal on screen can establish mood before a single line of dialogue is spoken.

A photograph of food becomes art when it goes beyond showing what a dish looks like and begins to explore something else, beauty, memory, excess, ritual, labor, desire, waste, identity, or loss.

Food symbolism in art includes religion, status, pleasure, and daily life.

Food in contemporary art is no longer just a subject. From about the 1980s, artists around the world have used food as medium, performance, politics, and provocation.

Food in Pop Art is food as everyone already knows it, from the supermarket shelf, the fast food counter, the advertising hoarding, the television commercial.

Food in modern art is food taken apart.

Food in 19th-century art is food brought down to earth.

Food in 18th-century art tells the story of a century divided against itself.

Food in Baroque art is rarely just decoration; painters used bread, oysters, fruit, wine, game, and imported luxuries to show wealth, technical mastery, and the fragility of earthly pleasure.

Food in Renaissance art is food seen afresh; painters and sculptors across Italy, the Netherlands, and northern Europe brought a new spirit of observation to everything around them and food was no exception.