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Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange by Charles Demuth, 1929
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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?
Summer by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573
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.