‘a picture says a thousand words’
Art allows meaning to be communicated visually across different languages and if you look around you will see it everywhere. Art is in the posters used to advertise, on signs and on product labels, on walls in the form of murals, on light signal boxes (children’s art) and even street art such as graffiti. How many times have you taken notice of something because of its powerful images?
Street art is a nuisance to some and a fabulous communication tool to others. Examples of valuable street art can be seen around the world in places like Belfast where people promote their republican or loyalist political beliefs in large scale murals on the side of buildings. British graffiti artists ‘Banksy’ illustrates social issues in satirical graffiti in various places around the world. And of course the Berlin wall with its social, political and artistic expressions of issues, largely in light of the historical events in Germany.
But is art and food sustainability connected?
Fresh produce has been featured in many a historic artwork such as in Cezanne’s many still life paintings of bowls of fruit and of people eating fruit such as in Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s ‘Boy Eating Grapes – 1890.
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| Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples and Oranges (1899) |
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| Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Boy Eating Grapes (1890) |
Several of Vincent van Gogh’s artworks explore the production of food, in particular potatoes, and looks at group of people working together to maintain a crop. In ‘The Potato Eaters’ Vincent illustrates the importance of food in terms communication at a family dinner.
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| Vincent van Gogh, Peasants planting potatoes (1884) |
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| Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (1885) |
One group of people got together to paint this mural in promotion of a long-term running fruit and vegetable stall.
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Queensland Art Gallery
Using the power of art let’s promote food sustainability in our communities.
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