Pizza and Painting

An Interdisciplinary Experience and Exploration

William Spaulding Chef Paul Waszkelewicz

Pizza and PaintingFood as Art

Food as Art?

Is food art a new idea?

Ornate edible architecture and sculptures have been part of human culture for

perhaps thousands of years!

No!

Ornate edible

architecture and sculptures were often created for celebrations in the

cities and courts of

early modern Europe.

On June 30, 1750, Gaetano de Luca created a sumptuous display of herbs

from his pharmacy in Rome.

This Italian scene makes use of sugar for table decorations. At that time sugar was a rare and

much prized substance that was sold with drugs and herbs.

Your imagination is the only limit to what you can do with food!

Almost anything is possible!

Translate your thought and the materials (food) to the finished product!

Principles of Food Art

Creating Your Food Art

Create Your Food Art: A Personal Pizza

Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to Remember

Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to Remember

1. The dough is our canvas.

Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to Remember

2. The toppings are our paint.

Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to Remember

1. The dough is our canvas.

2. The toppings are our paint.

How will you Evaluate Your Pizza Art ?

Steps to Creating Your Pizza Art

1. Mix and make pizza dough.

The Canvas: Pizza Dough

Steps to Creating Your Pizza Art

1. Mix and make pizza dough.

2. Roll out (hand or roller) then “dock”.

3. Spread sauce – leave a border.

4. Arrange cheese and toppings.

How will you Evaluate Your Pizza Art ?

Before Cooking

* first impressions

*color

*texture

*arrangement of toppings

How will you Evaluate Your Pizza Art ?

Before Cooking• first impressions• color• texture• arrangement of

toppings

After Cooking• first impressions• color• texture• arrangement of

toppings• taste• presentation

Describing and Evaluating Paintings

(And other types of visual arts!)

We use

the same concepts

used to describe and evaluate pizza

We use

the same concepts

used to describe and evaluate pizza

when we describe and evaluate visual art!

Concepts of Evaluation

Pizza(Before Cooking)

• first impressions• color• texture• arrangement of

toppings

Concepts of Evaluation

Pizza(Before Cooking)

• first impressions• color• texture• arrangement of

toppings

Painting

• first impressions• color• texture• arrangement of

toppings

Apply these concepts of evaluation to the following

paintings to see how it works:

A3 blackface #59

Iona Rozeal Brown

acrylic on paper50" x 38"

Mexico Zacula 1983Sean Scully

(American, b. Ireland, 1945)

Watercolor on paper;

8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)

Met

Fishing in Spring, The Pont de Clichy (Asnières),

1887Vincent van Gogh,

Dutch, 1853–1890

Oil on canvas;

19 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (50.5 x 60 cm)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Met Exhibit Site

View of ToledoEl Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

(Greek, 1541–1614)Oil on canvas;

47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (121.3 x 108.6 cm)

Colophon painting by Zou Yigui (1st section) China, Tang dynasty, 6th-8th century AD from: The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies, a handscroll painting attributed to Gu Kaizhi . British Museum

Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting

Mori Ransai

Japan

Mid-Edo period, late 18th century AD

Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valleyca. 1872Albert Bierstadt oil on paper mounted on canvas approx. 14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm)Smithsonian American Art MuseumBequest of Marvin J. and Shirley F. Sonosky in memory of Harryette Cohn

Sources: Food Art• The Edible Monument. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/ediblemonument/index2.html. Access 10/23/06

• Pepperoni flower. http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/images/refimages/seasonedinsight/pepperoni/monster2.jpg

• Food Art http://sickflash.com/food_art.html• http://www.thaicorner.co.uk/Carving%20papaya.jpg• Food Basket Face:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.allisonglassworks.com/foodart/food64.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.allisonglassworks.com/food4.html&h=453&w=500&sz=21&hl=en&start=51&tbnid=1KtLo2FffFeBAM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfood%2Bart%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Sources: Art Evaluation• See also the notes section (notes view) of this file• Kimball http://www.kimbellart.org/database/index.cfm?region=yes&mainregion=4• Hydria http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gkhy/hob_06.1021.77.htm• Mexico Zacula

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/sean_scully/view_1.asp?item=12&view=l• Fishing in Spring

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/cezanne_to_picasso/view_1.asp?item=6&view=l

• View of Toledo http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/eusi/hob_29.100.6.htm• Colophon painting by Zou Yigui (1st section)

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&_IXSR_=rc5&_IXSS_=_IXDB_%3dcompass%26%2524%2bwith%2ball_unique_id_index%2bis%2bOBJ2100%3d%252e%26_IXspage%3dfull%252f%26_IXSESSION_%3dxckZVHcdMaT&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXSPFX_=graphical/full/lg&_IXimg=ps349899.jpg&submit-button=summary

• Smithsonian Education http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/landscape_painting/creating_illusions.html

Hydria (water jar) depicting women at a fountain house,

ca. 510–500 B.C.;

Archaic, black-figure

Greek, Attic

Terracotta; H. 37.47 cm

Met. NY