Food as Art
 

Nice and simple.

(as opposed to my other topics that always come attached wth a long diatribe of exposition, boundaries, and aims,
I've learned better this time. I now know no one cares.)

The topic to display (keyword) edible treats as visual feats.

- - -

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...ub73o1_500.jpg

do you mean feats or feets?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ood-art-06.jpg

...just checkin' or is it chicken?

you make a nice opening contribution, BadNick, and one in which the point, I will expound:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2yk0r60.jpg

Both your intial share above, and these next pieces, were created by a Hungarian artisan known as Balla Tamás (but perhaps you knew this already), and mainly...
using an X-acto knife, he transforms regular food into emotive faces and amusing creatures enhanced with eyes, mouths, and teeth.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2csi1za.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/15wju3p.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/1zn53fd.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/mki4yc.jpg

[toxel.] + ballatamas.]

Bento Art is awesome.

http://www.trendhunter.com/images/ph...617_1_468.jpeg

http://www.google.com.sg/imglanding?...OPw5M&start=16

http://grahamten.files.wordpress.com.../bento-box.jpg

Man, this topic is going to be the death of my free time if I need to look up the author for each contribution made. (/end nervous sigh)
Gripes aside... I do appreciate a good bento box construction, and if it is made to resemble something else, all the better, right?

The rice kitty reclines contentedly on a bed of seafood and veggies, her whiskers tiger stripes rendered in nori (seaweed), her paws and ears in what appears to be lunch meat.

[cuteoverload.]


[I'm not sure what you were going for with your middle image, Charlatan, but just doing a google image search (GIS) and plucking images out that you like isn't the best way to ensure that your shared images last, or even if they can be actually be seen by us, considering you're swiping an image, maybe unaware that the particular site doesn't allow hotlinking.]

There's also this image to add to the one you found:


http://i42.tinypic.com/1553y50.jpg
"After Christmas, I wanted to make one more bento before the year was over, but my boyfriend and I
were already on holiday vacation. I was thinking of making a bento to eat at home, but my boyfriend
had to go see his family for a couple of days, so I decided to make a bento for him to eat on the bus.
Since I didn’t have work, I wanted to make this last bento of the year something very special." —Anna


[koikoikoi.] + [annathered.]

Bento Box Art... (continued)

http://i41.tinypic.com/2z5qbzr.jpg
Super Mario bento boxes by yukiko { more of this gallery can be found HERE }


http://i42.tinypic.com/vzd6pl.jpg
Bento of Super Smash Bros. by Anna the Red


[qbn.] + [technabob.] + [bombchu.]

These few samples of his works are thanks to Carl Warner, food artist extraordinaire CARL WARNER - PHOTOGRAPHER

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner3.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner6.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner7.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner1.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner4.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner5.jpg

Very nice BadNick, very very nice (meaty villa!).

I don't have the time to think and edit a post right now, so I'll just take the 30 seconds I do have and scrummage something up...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artis...vertumnus.jpeg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:V0zEHPQniS_vWM

speaking of melons
 

When I originally came across that gallery of Balla Tamás's work, I wanted to display the above image at first (instead of the 'apple butterfly', or 'hand of bread'), because I thought it was really nicely cut up, if not a bit creepy. Now that I look at it more, it seems less like a mummy rising from a pit of mud and/or cobwebs, but something more like Michael Phelps coming up to take a breath.

There's also this piece, created by the very same artisan:
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1810/foodart17.jpg

- - -

additionally, there were these two ripe, juicy, and oh-so-succulent mounds... found elsewhere:


[SWCC.]

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...appleheads.jpg
Hand-carved Apple Head dolls by Sharon Hays

http://9gag.com/photo/8346_540.jpg
the 10th anniversary issue of a French "urban fashion and culture" magazine called WAD.


[jezebel.]

When I found these I thought they were interesting but then I got suspicious about whether the carvings are really from the veggie or fruit or something else. I tried to confirm it but was not able to. So here they are for better or worse, true or false:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ple-728789.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rry-729144.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lon-729925.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ion-730277.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oot-727284.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rot-727849.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bit-728438.jpg

Well, I never did state whether or not the protrayals had to be 'real' artworks, in that they were, at one point, edible (and I, too, myself, have things in my queue that are just drawings of food), so the above, while I am leaning towards them being photoshopped (if only because of the strawberry) is alright nevertheless, BadNick.

Ah, I believe I have finally found the source to the works... they are advertisment posters for 'WMF Knives'.
(basically, it means they were photoshopped, in all likelihood).

See them HERE.

Jet, you are a true hunter-gatherer. I looked high and low for the source of those and couldn't find it. Maybe they were right in the middle the whole time.

I just used this, a now-everyday little web application I use. I weeded out the unlikely, looked for the "kind-of" looks legit, clicked, backtracked, and then found what I went there for, and did a bit of post-research, just to be sure.

In all, it took me just as long as it did to write this post: about 3-4 minutes.

- - -

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Derpy Subasaurus by painteddog


[reddit.]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/EvsTxdLEm...bQRRo1_500.jpg
Translated: Cafe "trunk" is a popular dish, using Hokkaido milk, waffle chips ears,
decorated with original soft chocolate chip eyes, "Zounohanasofutokurimu."


[hamakei.] + [flickr.]

Food from the best restaurant in the world... Noma

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fmzJd7725h...a,+Denmark.jpg

http://verygoodfood.dk/wp-content/no...mall_trine.jpg

http://www.townandcountrytravelmag.c...enhagen-fb.jpg

http://verygoodfood.dk/wp-content/uploads/img_3255.jpg

Noma.

"...is a two Michelin star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The name is a concatenation of the two Nordic words "nordisk" (Nordic) and "mad" (food),
and the restaurant is known for its reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic Cuisine.
In 2010, it was ranked as the Best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine,
having achieved third place the previous year."


[nationalpost.] + [luxist.]

- - -

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...63d20430_m.jpg
cakes & cakes by electricbiscuit

(which might seemlessly transition to my next post, though I doubt it... someone will post before I check back in again.)

A fried egg...

http://208.106.181.133/_media/imgs/articles/a211_f1.jpg

This 'eggscellent' yin and yang, titled "Eggregation" is made by DPChallenge user scalvert:

"It took me a few tries to make this happen: I cut the white shape (and the hole) out of thick paperboard to make a mold. The board wasn’t thick enough, so I pressed white paper tape along the edges. Then I covered the shapes with nonstick cooking spray and held them down on a flat griddle. I poured several egg whites into the mold and turned the griddle on to cook it. Carefully removed the mold using an X-acto knife to help separate the edges and then transferred the white shape to the pan with a spatula. Cooked yolks aren’t particularly attractive, so I cooked the bottom just enough to be able to transfer it (I went through several because they kept breaking). Once arranged in the pan, I hit everything with cooking spray to make it shiny, then used a butane lighter to lightly scorch the top of the egg white in spots so it would really look cooked."

[neatorama.]

- - - - -

I have many more examples of "eggs as art", but I don't know if I should post them here, or create a new theme entitled, "food with faces".
I certainly have plenty of those. (as exemplified below)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/...4c76d40d25.jpg
What's all the eggcitement about? by Ariel Bo Bariel

I couldn't find an actual "ketchup art" site but these pics caught my fancy. I thought that by now a creative artist would have used green ketchup to enhance his/her portfolio, but alas, no green ketchup art was found:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...etchup-art.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...hup-art-11.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...etchupart2.jpg

In response to your post, BadNick (it seems all I ever do in this thread is follow-up responses)... I managed to find this video of the process, most probably produced by the very same artists you've portrayed above.


(sorry about any possible advertisements, and the music, too)

- - -

Additionally, I happened upon this contest, currntly being held by the Heinz Co.

Heinz Ketchup Creativity 2010

"Since 2006, aspiring young artists have delighted America with delectable Ketchup packet designs.
The program promises more excitement in year four with bigger and better rewards for students and schools.

Through the Heinz Ketchup CreativityTM Contest, students from schools across the U.S. in grades K-1 through 12
are invited to show their creativity for a chance to have their artwork appear on millions of Heinz® Ketchup packets!

For the first time in Ketchup Creativity history, one of the top 12 winners will be chosen as the grand prize winner and
his or her artwork will appear on approximately 2.5 million Heinz® Ketchup bottles, in addition to the single-serve packets.
To top it off, that student will receive a $5,700 cash prize for the distinction as Heinz's first Ketchup Creativity bottle artist and grand prize winner."

PAST WINNERS' GALLERY

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...od/meatart.jpg

Quoting a report I found online:

The above is a piece by Victoria Reynolds called Down the Primrose Path, and it's essentially a trompe l'oeil painting of raw steak. It's part of a series of meat-inspired works by Reynolds, which also includes more playful takes on more whimsical types of meat.

Reynolds is at least the third female contemporary artist I've heard of to use meat as a running motif in her work; in art school I remember seeing a lot of meat-themed work by Jana Sterbak, including Chair Apollinaire (1996), a club chair upholstered with flank steak. I remember walking into a Sterbak mid-career retrospective at MCA in Chicago, and the smell of the work just completely taking over the space – well-meaning but clueless tourists drifted into the gallery smiling, and then marched right out again with contorted faces. And also very recently a Chilean artist named Gabriela Rivera caused a controversy with this video piece, in which she documents the act of covering her naked body with raw meat. I also want to say that Janine Antoni dabbled in the meat art game, but she might have just stuck to chocolate and lard.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...pollinaire.jpg
Jana Sterbak
Chair Apollinaire, 1996
Flank steak and black button thread
on polyester resin structure

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ielaRivera.jpg

Gabriela Rivera's video forms part of a controversial exhibition at Santiago's Sala Juan Egenau gallery. She said: "My work is a metaphor for the relationship that people have with themselves every day when they look in the mirror." The exhibition also includes videos of women urinating in the street and smashing boiled eggs with their hands.

Las Ultimas Notician reports that many visitors have complained that they found it disgusting.

Again, another very replete, and appreciated, share of artistic endeavors BadNick.

I, too, also have mounting examples of exclusively "meaty" art, but I'll go ahead make this the one that follows:


Quoted from The Bacon Thread

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....carne-4web.jpg

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....pg?w=500&h=350

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....rne1.jpg?w=500

On the other side of the scale...

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...d8b3e239_m.jpg
International Vegetarian Union: Anatomy Model Woman

"Vegetables are all your body needs"

Advertising Agency: JWT Kuwait
Creative Directors: Alessandro Antonini, Mark Makhoul
Photographer: Tommy Morris
Retoucher: Nabil Kamara
Published: August 2009

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshof1-thumb.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshof2.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshoff3.jpg

The above project looks like it fit right into the "Street Art" scrolling gallery.

- - -

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg
“Mondrian Cake” — featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Rooftop Coffee Bar.


[laughingsquid.]

I want to eat that cake.

Would anybody mind explaining to me what a 'Mondrian' really is, and what it is meant to represent? All I've ever known about was the artist, but is the above configuration his "calling card", so to speak?

- - -
http://i40.tinypic.com/244pdw3.jpg

http://food.truth.travel/media/image...dge_091116.jpg

In my quest to find out whether or not the above snail is supposed to be served live ('cause in the image above, it certainly looks quite 'lively'), I looked it up, and was rather delighted to find that the first searched query was just the thing to answer it: the recipe.




[BBC.]

- - - - -

To honor the Annecy International Animated Film Festival's anniversary, on the occasion of its 50th celebration, French artist/photographer Alexandre Dubosc engineered and baked a commemoratory chocolate cake in an unconvential oven of his own idea, and displayed it as a stop-motion vignette.


Food about you - Annecy festival 2010 by Alexandre DUBOSC.

The making-of gallery.


[vimeo.] + [seriouseats.]

I love this film. I remember seeing it an animation festival when if first came out.

BREAKFAST


LUNCH


DINNER

at the centerpiece of this "piece", food not only becomes art, but also, a statistic
 

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Hafsteinn Juliusson, Rui Pereira and Joana Pais’s “Wheel of Nutrition” plate set
is a dead-simple color-coded diet-management system. Each color slice illustrates
the recommended daily dose for different food types based on a the diet of your choice.


[swissmiss.]

http://i.imgur.com/qdYgm.jpg



[urlesque.] + [strangemaps.]

I know that there is already, and probably could be another, topic devoted solely devoted to fanciful cakes and their consturction, but for the sake of it, and because I don't have that many, I'll feature the ones that I do come across here (until the time comes I find too many, and then I'll move them elsewhere).

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Liz Marek, of Artisan Cake Company, in honor of her “super nerdy husband's 26th birthday”,
portrays Andrew Zubko’s epic “Batman vs. Shark with Lightsaber”.


[greatwhitesnark.] + [TFP.]