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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 90970, member: 56"]Hey... that's a painting of 'plenty'... food for the table and a variety of it. I'm not sure that it's advantageous to think that meat comes on a styrofoam platter and wrapped in saran. Before refrigeration, people had to be more pragmatic, and realistic, about where their food came from.</p><p><br /></p><p>You wouldn't think that dead fish would make much of a painting, but this example from the Art Gallery of Ontario is spectacular in terms of composition, textures, light, and technique, and it's 5ft across:</p><p><a href="http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/56873460123/still-life-fish-unknown-johannes-fabritius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/56873460123/still-life-fish-unknown-johannes-fabritius" rel="nofollow">http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/56873460123/still-life-fish-unknown-johannes-fabritius</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 90970, member: 56"]Hey... that's a painting of 'plenty'... food for the table and a variety of it. I'm not sure that it's advantageous to think that meat comes on a styrofoam platter and wrapped in saran. Before refrigeration, people had to be more pragmatic, and realistic, about where their food came from. You wouldn't think that dead fish would make much of a painting, but this example from the Art Gallery of Ontario is spectacular in terms of composition, textures, light, and technique, and it's 5ft across: [URL]http://artgalleryofontario.tumblr.com/post/56873460123/still-life-fish-unknown-johannes-fabritius[/URL][/QUOTE]
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