The beautiful city of Valencia, and back to where we began!
This was a brilliant visit in which the students experienced the food and drink of Spain.
It was also the final visit, celebrated with the burning of the ‘Filla’.
the end of an amazing and truly rewarding project.
The visit to Burgas was fantastic.
We visited many places of historical interest as well as sampling the food and drink from the region. The students had a fantastic time on the visit.
Iron sculptures in Sozopol
Testing out the Black Sea in Burgas
Istanbul was a fantastic experience, the meeting of Europe and Asia is a real melting pot of cultures. An amazing place with so much history. The food was not to bad either!
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The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait – Jack Van Eyck (1434). The oranges on the windowsill and table suggests innocence before Adam and Eve’s fall from grace aswell as the couple’s wealth. There are some arguments to say the oranges could infact be apples. If this is the case, they would represent the temptation of knowledge and the Fall.
L’Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) – Leonardo da Vinci (1494-1498). There are discussions questioning if infact this last supper was a Passover meal. The only way it could be determined is to decide if the bread is leavened or unleavened. The bread would symbolise jesus’ body and the goblets/glasses would contain wine which would symbolise his blood; ‘Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “take,eat; this is my body’ And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying ‘ drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant”
The Travelling Companions – Augustus Egg (1862) The ladies, be they twins, companions or the same woman have different items in their baskets. The flowers here could be a symbol for virginity and sexual virtue where as the fruit in the other basket could refer to Eve’s temptation and fallen virtue.
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Still life with quince, cabbage, melon and cucumber – Juan Sanchaez Cotan (1602- 1603) From the spanish Baroque period this is a simple yet striking painting. There are discussions as to wether this was just an exercise in painting or if it has religious connotations; should it be understood as a celebration of God’s most humble creations? It is said that Cotan gave up his worldly possessions to become a monk not long after he painted this.
Still Life with Fruit and Ham – Jan Davidszoon de Heem (1648 -1649) During the Dutch Baroque era, paintings like this with an incredible amount of detail and sensuality were used to demonstrate wealth.
Un Coin de Table – Paul Cezanne (1895) Cezanne is a well known impressionist painter. “Critics often found the distortions of perspective in his paintings willful and incompetent, but they are often explicable in optical terms. The refusal to correct these distortions indicates Cezanne’s aim of remaining true to perceptual experience”
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Summer – Guiseppe Archimbaldo (1563) Paints mosaic images of fruit and vegetable portraits. Innovative, fresh and fun with Surrealists drawing inspiration from his work. It has been suggested that his paintings are either the product of a deranged mind or a pointed critique of the academic and wealth culture in Italy.
Campbell’s Soup Can – Andy Warhol (1964) This piece by the American Pop Artist, became his signature piece and inspired him to experiment with the visual effect of serial imagery.
Skinned Rabbit – Antonio Lopez Garcia (1972) The subject of the painting is depicted in an almost photorealistic way but it still retains a sense of mystery.
(top)Bread Village – Carl Warner He creates ‘foodscapes’ using fruit, vegetables and bread. Each creation is sketched out, then pins and super glue are used to hold the creations together.
(Bottom left) Untitled – Christel Assante (-n/a-) These sculptures use eggshells as their canvas and almost resemble lacework due to how intricate the designs are.
(bottom right) Mother and Child frie nach Damien Hirst – Karsten Wegener (2013) – a playful take on works of art by other artists
Prague is an amazing city!
It has truly wonderful architecture, from Gothic cathedrals to the most impressive art nouveau buildings. The place seems to live and breath art. You wander through the small cobbled streets and think you see Kafka hiding in the shadows.
A bit more about some British Food….
Great British snacks include:
The pork Pie…
Cornish Pasties..
And Scotch Eggs…
There are many different foods from the Union countries and the regions;
Haggis from Scotland…
Irish Stew from Ireland…
(and not forgetting Guinness..)
And also Welsh cakes from Wales..
Hi, its Vanya typing for the blog,
I am student studying a levels, including btec art and design at the college.
To contribute to the subject topic on food and associations, i have chosen to focus on linking the mind to food, resulting in eating disorders. this is the opposite to the glorification of food! I would like people to see what problems exist.
These are images that I have taken in relation to the project, the focus being on anorexia.
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Hi, Im Amy, and i will be going to Riga in the following week, very exciting!!!
The work that I am doing is looking at the sexualisation of food and drink. I think that the use of food can portray much, as some of these images that i have produced are showing.
These are the final images of the British foods that we have taken to Bologna. they will be added to the food box that contains all the foods from the countries taking part in the project.
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