The Blue Drop Cafè:
Today on Menu: Asparagus or Artichokes
The triumph of genuine food.
Elegantly seasonal, but also well-chosen details to create interesting still lifes.
But why are still lifes so popular? Perhaps due to their “laid table” aspect that makes us want to get our hands on it and gives us an extremely positive visual connotation.
Colors, scents, memories, flavors: a feast for the expansion of the senses and for the associations that emanate from it.
Today we have crunchy artichokes versus soft asparagus.
The first are thorny fruits, fruit of the people, difficult to cut.
The artichokes portrayed here are the work of Francesco Inverni, a Florentine painter, active after the Second World War. With a simple impetus and a pasty material, these artichokes are still represented with their leaves attached: they seem to have just been picked.
The painter’s choice to place them next to two slices of lemon, some garlic heads and a jug of oil, already seems to herald their destination.
Like a recipe whose ingredients are already placed in a beautiful presence.
Asparagus is of a completely different nature.
Considered a vegetable for the rich, elite and precious, soft and tasty, sometimes candid.
Giovanni Segantini, in this still life of 1886, depicts them in a beautiful bouquet, in the center of a set table, as if they were a crown, due to their “real” presence in the midst of other refined foods.
Segantini was known to belong to the Divisionist current but with a predilection also for Symbolism. Which means that unlike Inverni’s work (with a distinctly realistic intent), here there is also an allegorical direction, of which food represents the joie de vivre.
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Asparagus or Artichokes
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