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Les Entre-plats Sodamises
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,420
Nourritures du futur I
Angélique
Sculpture - 45 x 32 x 32 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 12.6 x 12.6 inch
€4,000
Just Tender Peaches... (Photorealism still life painting)
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
€5,900
Coffrage Haribo Hari
Annick B. Cuadrado
Sculpture - 53 x 41 x 6.5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 16.1 x 2.6 inch
€2,500
Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,420
Les caprices pinces princiers
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,420
Les Panaches Panaches from Les Diners de Gala, Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€2,420
Ukrainian still life
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 89.9 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€2,371
Still life with watermelon
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€2,178
Oberon’s Lunch - 1966 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
€3,550
Something to suck medium #109
Hersk
Sculpture - 93 x 34 x 7 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 13.4 x 2.8 inch
€1,500
Medium Something To Suck #66
Hersk
Sculpture - 92 x 32 x 7 cm Sculpture - 36.2 x 12.6 x 2.8 inch
€1,450
Bus 60, Chateau Rouge
Camille Léage
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€149
Les corbeaux volent sur le dos
Lionel Morateur
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
Saison heureuse
Ellis Zbinden
Painting - 46.5 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.3 x 26 x 0 inch
€7,200 €5,760
Duet in crimson
Zhirayr Khachatryan
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€329
Anemone per Anti-Pasti (Anemone of the Toreador) from Florals
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 38.1 cm Print - 22 x 15 inch
€2,807
Dining On Capri Al Fresco
Slim Aarons
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 cm Photography - 16 x 20 inch
€2,120
The Oriental Hotel Bangkok
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
€3,690
Dining Al Fresco On Capri, 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
€3,550
Dal Lake, 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
Culinary Heights, 1987 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
€3,550
Adolfo De Velasco - 1988 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Print - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Print - 30 x 40 inch
€3,010
Villa Vera - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
€3,550
Brunch At Brennans - 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
Wrapping Bonbon Ferrari
Laurence Jenkell
Sculpture - 88 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
€25,000
All Night Food - Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 50 x 76 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€665
Plage du Crouton 1
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
Sill life with cherries
Simona Tsvetkova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€949
Watermelon season
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,904
Pop Crâne
Claire Cretu
Sculpture - 85 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
€11,000 €9,900
A sandy for Edward Hopper
Cristina J. Rey
Photography - 28 x 39 cm Photography - 11 x 15.4 inch
€190
On the Kitchen Table 20
Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€1,200
On the Kitchen Table 17
Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€1,200
Still life with pomegranates
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€629
The last ice cream - Blue
Sagrasse
Sculpture - 30 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
€350
Leve De Konigin ! Vive La Reine !
Lord Wilmore
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
€5,000
Still life with plums and grapes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€967
Still life with figs and grapes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,161
Still life with pomegranates and grapes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€967
Still life with fishes
Tigran Avetyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,016
Still life purple flowers 1
Tigran Avetyan
Painting - 55 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,016
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.