Food with Art on the Mind
My article was form an online newspaper source. It was about some students from the pastry department at Barbabos Community College Hospitality Institute. These particular students had been learning the culinary art for the past two years and were asked to hold an exhibition in order to inform the public about what occurs at their school. Most of the students were pastry chefs and showed an assortment of cakes, “The skills exhibited featured many varieties of fruit and vegetable displays; nut and fruit-filled chocolates; fat carbon sculptures; icing, castor and rock sugar creations and several magnificent giant ice carvings.”
This article relates both to the video about slow food and the reading “Food as Art” because it shows how students are taking food and creating masterpieces in the culinary world. Theses cakes and sculptures are both aesthetically pleasing to the eyes as well as taste. After reading this and what else I’ve read this week it reminds me of how food plays an important role in our world and how it is absolutely an art that has been passed down from generation to generation. We have television channels dedicated to food, competitions, festivals and other events that have food as a main focal point. Some competitions that use food (Gingerbread house competition) don’t even use taste as a criteria of grading, it is on presentation alone which screams art.
Umoja R. (2008, April 23). Nation News, Food with art in mind [On-Line Newspaper]. Retrieved April 25, from http://www.nationnews.com/story/324405779112151.php
Art as a Smell
This article was also found online and I actually found this one to be very interesting because it gave me a completely different perspective then what I was previously thinking. It talks about how basically smell can main the main contributor to aesthetics. Robert Blackson was inspired by the book ‘Fast Food Nation’ and held and exhibition that instead of focusing on sight, they focusing on smell. The interesting part is that they discussed how smell could bring about memories of childhood dinners or any other memory that the smell would remind you off.
In my post this week I was curious if people viewed fast food as an art and this article sheds some light on this. I figured that most people would just view McDonalds as a fast food place and nothing more then a place to grab some food. But what if someone was driving by McDonalds and catches a smell that paints a picture in their head of a previous event, you in a way can consider this to be art. This article shows a different view point that can be applied on fast food restaurants. I still however would not put this in the same category as slow food as art because the intentions in each category are different. Slow food as an art is trying to capture the essence of food and display it in a masterful way. The fast food industry is merely trying to sell a product for interest of gaining capital. It’s the consumer that can take the smell or taste of a fast food item and turn it into an aesthetic feeling.
Georgi G. (2008, April 21). 24 Hour Museum Art as a smell at the Reg Vardy Gallery,[On-Line Newspaper]. Retrieved April 25, from http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56538.html
2 comments:
The article about smell is pretty interesting. Probably one the more interesting articles on food art research. What you said about smells conjuring up images could be argued to be beyond art. Instead of an artist creating an image and then letting their audience interpret, by creating or controlling a sense of smell they could create sets of images and even feelings that are for some, unique yet possible universal. All without a canvas, sculpture or art instrument. To convey meaning with a smell. That's something different. Perhaps even novel in the world of art.
The article about the different forms of food being art I found the most interesting. I say this because I do too have many friends in the culinary art academy and it is anything but easy. Students their are tested, like you said, on presentation and creativity on the type of food they have displayed. As for myself, I have never taken this form of art into much thought but from what I have learned from this class thus far is art can be anything that one can relate to or express themselves in relation to ones own passion for art.
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