Affluent Savvy
Affluent Savvy
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While an apple was supposed to remind the viewers of the carnal pleasures and sin, a peach was used as a replacement to this maligned fruit, symbolizing truth and salvation.
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Learn More »The depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history. With practice stretching back to ancient civilizations, a variety of fruit paintings can be seen in Greek and Roman depictions of banquets and bacchanals and inside Egyptian burial chambers depicted among all of the good things waiting for the deceased in the afterlife. A recurring theme through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to modern time, the subject of fruit has served as a celebration of a theme, composition itself or a powerful metaphor. Imbued with symbolism, fruit painting was often used to reveal something else. A ripe apple, a peach, a golden pear, a lemon, a juicy strawberry, and pomegranate - all are charmingly decorative to the average viewer. But for Byzantine, Gothic and Early Renaissance painters, fruit was part of an incredibly rich visual language. Each type of fruit carried a different meaning. Often depicted peeled with its attractive play of lights on translucent flesh, the bitterness and sourness of lemons symbolized the deceptive allure or attraction of earthly beauty. While an apple was supposed to remind the viewers of the carnal pleasures and sin, a peach was used as a replacement to this maligned fruit, symbolizing truth and salvation. While figs symbolized a loss of innocence and a fall from grace, pears represented marital faith. Similarly, pomegranates, grapes, oranges, strawberries and other fruits were all imbued with a deeper meaning for the viewer to read. During the 16th century, depictions of fruit acted as symbols of the seasons and of the senses, both as a literal representation of the delicacies that the upper class might enjoy and as a religious reminder to avoid gluttony and excess. The Golden Age of the Dutch and Flemish culture gave rise to the concept of Vanitas still lifes, works imbued with symbolism that carried a strong Memento mori message. The condition of the depicted fruit was often allegorical. Perishable and ephemeral just like a human life, fruit served as a representation of the transient nature of our existence. While fresh and ripe fruit represented a symbol of abundance, bounty, fertility, youth and vitality, decayed ones served as a reminder of our own undeniable mortality and inevitability of change. Besides being a moral and social commentary, fruit depictions also fashioned clever visual puns, revealing their humorous or erotic potential. Our selection of fruit paintings brings together Renaissance masterpieces and more modern depictions. To contemplate the transience of life and much more, scroll down and enjoy!
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