Brevity by Dan Thompson for May 25, 2013

Food for thought…

This reeks of parody.

Ah, the Stinking Rose. At the pinnacle and base of my personal food pyramid. Yummers.

That nut, Meg, from next door, should have been in the picture, too…

She always spices things up.

Edvard Munch’s The Scream gets lots of press, too.

And next to that ‘The lady of Shallot’

Oh…. I didn’t think of other paintings….

But (especially if you don’t care for American mustard)…one really tasty painting sandwiched into that gallery is Manet’s “Dijon sur les herbes.”

This represents the aging into vegetables of the American Gothic couple – sort of a combination with “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. This is considered a work of classic Gothic fiction with a strong Faustian theme. If it didn’t migrate into garlic, nobody could stand the smell!