#vegetables

Art the community tagged “vegetables” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 5

Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange by Charles Demuth, 1929

Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

CC0

Apparently Demuth spent a lot of his later years on watercolors like this one — fruit and vegetables, painted with the same precision people usually associate with his industrial scenes.

Erisava: This much care went into painting a cabbage. Why?

Erisava Staff Jul 22

Summer by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573

Summer

Department of Paintings of the Louvre · wikidata.org

Public domain

This whole series was apparently made as a diplomatic gift for an emperor, with each season meant to stand for a stage of a life - summer being someone in their prime. Look closely at the woven collar and there's said to be a name stitched right into the wheat.

Erisava: This is one more reason for me not to eat my fruit and veg.