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Image: Francisco Oller, Hacienda La Fortuna (1885). For our Saturday art post we go to the Caribbean. This year we have been focusing on pieces that have the subject of where food comes from. This painting captures a moment when food production was shifting as a result of slavery ending. Francisco Manuel Oller y Cestero […]
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Image: Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Tomato Pickers (1975) This week’s art post about food comes from Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho and continues the theme of the path food takes before it gets to our kitchen. Magsaysay-Ho was born in 1914. As a young woman she studied at the University of the Philippines before leaving to study and […]
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Image: Winslow Homer, Oranges on a Branch (1885). For the Saturday art post about food, we pick up on the theme of food sources with an unexpected painting. Winslow Homer is known for his scenes of Maine and cooler weather. But the painting above is from a trip the Bahamas of an orange tree full […]
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Image: Oldenburg and van Bussen, Shuttlecock/Blueberry Pies I & II (1999). We like to focus on art that takes food as its subject for our Saturday posts. Today, we take note of a passing of an artist who worked on a monumental scale, often with food as his subject. Claes Oldenburg died this past week […]
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Image: Amanda de Leon, The Papaya Tree. For our Saturday art post we stumbled across this piece in our scouring the interwebs. We have been focused this year on the subject of where food comes from. Pondering Frida Kahlo’s still life paintings of summer’s bounty and the contrasting price of those fruits in certain parts […]
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Image: Alex Katz, Blueberry Field (1955). For our weekly art post we return to the theme of where food comes from. Consistent with the season, we have found a painting of a blueberry field. The painting is by Alex Katz, a notable post-war American artist. Katz was born in 1927, and amazingly lived to see […]
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Image: Sam Gilliam, Light Depth (1969). On Saturdays we typically post about art that intersects with the world of food, which we hope makes sense as a dining guide for D.C. Today, however, we put the emphasis on D.C. and on food for the soul instead. We do so to honor the life and work […]
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Image: Marc Chagall, A Wheatfield on a Summer’s Afternoon (1942). Though this piece is roughly consistent with our theme for Saturday art posts that shows where food comes from, it is also captures themes that resonate today. Chagall, who was born in what is now Belarus but was then part of the Russian Empire, painted […]
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