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Petit déjeuner à la française
Marine De Quénetain
Painting - 140 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,355
Série Adam et Eve - 3/3
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£355
Apples with a cup
Albert Kechyan
Painting - 27.9 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 11 x 16 x 0.3 inch
£2,895
Ma chance de la journée
Patsheli Kahambo Kitange
Painting - 140 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 2 inch
£1,777
Still life with meat
Igor Sventitski
Painting - 53 x 110 x 2.8 cm Painting - 20.9 x 43.3 x 1.1 inch
£2,488
Still life - pomegranate
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 20 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£100
Bluebells flowers
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 99.8 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 39.3 x 1 inch
£2,156
Still life with cherries and peaches
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£232
Still life with lilacs
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£8,443
Still life with plainair
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 75 x 87.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 34.4 x 0.8 inch
£7,878
Summer mood, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 89.9 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£3,442
Campbell’s Soup Can II (Cream of Mushroom)
Steve Kaufman
Print - 88.9 x 58.4 x 5.1 cm Print - 35 x 23 x 2 inch
£1,493
Cup with Strawberries
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£7,554
The Golden Cabbage Collection
Li Shigong
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
£5,332
Small golden apple
Kseniia Redina
Sculpture - 7 x 7 x 7 cm Sculpture - 2.8 x 2.8 x 2.8 inch
£444 £400
Big golden apple
Kseniia Redina
Sculpture - 13 x 10.5 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 4.1 x 4.3 inch
£444 £400
Plums with a cup
Albert Kechyan
Painting - 30.5 x 35.1 x 0.8 cm Painting - 12 x 13.8 x 0.3 inch
£3,107
Cocktail - with gold embellishment
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
£2,654
Still life with pomegranates
Sergey Miqayelyan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£182
Pears - apples. first glance
Ganna Prymakova
Painting - 40.1 x 45 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.8 x 17.7 x 0.7 inch
£2,339
Pears - Apples. second glance
Ganna Prymakova
Painting - 40.1 x 45 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.8 x 17.7 x 0.7 inch
£2,364
Pomegranate boom
Ganna Prymakova
Painting - 40.1 x 45 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.8 x 17.7 x 0.7 inch
£2,339
Watching pomegranate
Maka Batiashvili
Painting - 101.6 x 88.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 35 x 0.7 inch
£2,737
open sea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Andrei Petkevich
Painting - 73.7 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29 x 45 x 1 inch
£2,488
Peras con bandeja I. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 83 x 110 x 0.2 cm Photography - 32.7 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Espárragos
Dora Franco
Photography - 72.6 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.6 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Peras con cortina marroquí III. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Cebolla y Champiñones. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 72 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.3 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Peras con cortina marroquí II. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 88 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 34.6 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Cerezas. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 73 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Copa de cerezas. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 72.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 28.6 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Berenjenas. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 72.6 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.6 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Alcachofas con jarra III. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 81.3 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Cebollas con alcachofas. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 72.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Peras con bandeja II. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 72.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Cebollas con nabo. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 78.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 30.8 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Cebollas con alcachofas II. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 110 x 75.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 29.6 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Bodegón verduras II. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 72 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.3 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Peras con cortina marroquí
Dora Franco
Photography - 72 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.3 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Peras con bandeja I. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 72.8 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Verduras con nabo y cebollas colgante I. From the bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 84.7 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 33.3 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Hotel Mermaid Club #4
Chris Rhodes
Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 3.9 x 3.1 x 0.1 inch
£133
Hotel Mermaid Club #1
Chris Rhodes
Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 3.9 x 3.1 x 0.1 inch
£133
Still life - plums and pear
Stepan Ohanyan
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£207
Still life pomegranate and small watermelons
Stepan Ohanyan
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£265
Pêches et poires
Stéphane Dufraisse
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,044
Verduras con nabo y cebollas colgante II. From The bodegon series
Dora Franco
Photography - 72.4 x 110 x 0.2 cm Photography - 28.5 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Brainstorming à la crème
Marc Felten
Painting - 50 x 50 x 6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
£1,777
Bonbon Orange Candy Papillote argent
Arson
Sculpture - 60 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
£2,133
Bonbon Rose Candy Papillotte argent
Arson
Sculpture - 60 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
£2,133
The Gentleman
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
£5,971
Food
Food and meals have fascinated artists for centuries. If some of them are interested in still lifes and vanitas artworks, many use food in order to criticise the over abundance that our consumerist society encourages. They create figurative art evoking food from fast food chains and supermarkets as well as the highly branded packaging. Artsper presents a selection that will delight your senses, discover famous foods and brands from our consumer society and traditional representations of food: a real artistic menu that will whet your appetite!
But before exploring our selection, why not take a few moments to explore the relationship that links art and food? Eating is a necessary activity for human survival and food plays an important role in our societies and cultures, so it's not surprising that it is a popular subject in the history in art. In Western art, food has been used symbolically, for illustrating a theme and in order to allow artists to showcase their talent in portraying any subject realistically.
In Ancient Greece, artists represented banquets and feasts through painting and mosaics. In Ancient Egypt, drawings of food were found inside funeral chambers as Egyptians believed that due to magical properties, these drawings would provide the sustenance that the deceased needed in the afterlife. However, it was especially from the Renaissance onwards that food became a more recurrent theme. From the 17th century, especially in Holland, Spain and Italy, food became a separate theme and many still lifes focused solely on the subject. Painters depicted with an impressive level of realism and detail abundant displays of food which often included game, seafood, exotic citruses and grapes. Many such paintings have been interpreted as referring to the transient nature of luxury or the dangers of greed. By the end of the 19th century however, artists turned more to genre scenes and depicted food in more realistic settings. As the Realism movement flourished, they even depicted peasant meals.
The arrival of consumerism in the mid 20th century disrupted the role of food in art. Food started to be carefully packaged and branded and it became a means of communication. Several food items such the Coca Cola bottle, the Campbell's canned food or the classic hamburger have reached the rank of icon. Artists often use such foods in their work to comment on and criticise the society around them.
In contemporary art, artists continue to depict foods in paintings but they also use it to create installations, performance art and photographs. Today there seem to be an infinite number of possibilities for food in art.
If you're looking for a painting for your kitchen, why not choose one that reflects the activities taking place in this oh-so-important room? The same goes for your dining room! On Artsper you'll find a wide range of choice, from classical still lifes painted with impressive realism to pop art works and almost abstract ones that evoke food and meals only in passing. With our selection, you're sure to find the work of art for you.