Day 5 Prompt: Culinary Arts
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tolkienekphrasisweekMandatory Art Form Prompt
Food is a fascinating junction between craft and need. Every people responds to the constant nutritional needs of the body by using the fluctuating and diverse bounty of the land and seasons around them, producing unique cuisines. History, class, religion, gender, and other facets of identity also determine what counts as food, who prepares it, what it looks like, and what it tastes like. From extravagant royal feasts with illusionistic food sculptures, to stews left by farmers to cook in the ashes and feed them at night, to aged wine and fermented chicha, through candies and breads and preserved meats, the culinary arts sustain life and ornament it. They invite us to think about the sustaining nature of art in both a metaphorical and literal sense. Those creating for Day 5’s culinary arts theme might consider food itself, the manners involved in its consumption, the art of its preparation, and/or the dishes and utensils used to make and serve it.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Get out your egg timer! Today’s writing prompt is to write to a time limit. Perhaps a stream-of-consciousness five-minute ficlet, a flash poem, or an hour of intensive concentration will get the creative juices flowing.
Optional Art Method Theme
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, the optional art theme for culinary arts day is series and iterations (this can be more like Claude Monet’s haystacks if you’d rather). Explore the impact, rhythm, scale, or facets of an iterative or repeated process or output.
Optional Pain Theme
Today’s optional pain theme is the art vs craft divide and the hierarchical assumptions such a split fosters. An easy example of what is meant is how Sarah Bland’s detailed woolwork and patterns were deemed “craft,” while William Morris’ textile designs were “art.” Who is an artist, and who is an artisan? What is preserved in a museum, and what is left on the dustheap of history?
Optional Joy Theme
Some divisions are prejudicial, but there’s a real delight to be found in shared taste. Lifelong partnerships of all kinds, artistic movements, communities of criticism and capability grow up around the generative joy of sharing your opinions! Consider, for example, the trans-oceanic bibliophilic bond between Belle da Costa Greene and Alfred Pollard, or Merve Emre’s "The Critic as Friend,” and go off and create something of *ahem* distinction.
Some examples for your inspiration.
Food is a fascinating junction between craft and need. Every people responds to the constant nutritional needs of the body by using the fluctuating and diverse bounty of the land and seasons around them, producing unique cuisines. History, class, religion, gender, and other facets of identity also determine what counts as food, who prepares it, what it looks like, and what it tastes like. From extravagant royal feasts with illusionistic food sculptures, to stews left by farmers to cook in the ashes and feed them at night, to aged wine and fermented chicha, through candies and breads and preserved meats, the culinary arts sustain life and ornament it. They invite us to think about the sustaining nature of art in both a metaphorical and literal sense. Those creating for Day 5’s culinary arts theme might consider food itself, the manners involved in its consumption, the art of its preparation, and/or the dishes and utensils used to make and serve it.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Get out your egg timer! Today’s writing prompt is to write to a time limit. Perhaps a stream-of-consciousness five-minute ficlet, a flash poem, or an hour of intensive concentration will get the creative juices flowing.
Optional Art Method Theme
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, the optional art theme for culinary arts day is series and iterations (this can be more like Claude Monet’s haystacks if you’d rather). Explore the impact, rhythm, scale, or facets of an iterative or repeated process or output.
Optional Pain Theme
Today’s optional pain theme is the art vs craft divide and the hierarchical assumptions such a split fosters. An easy example of what is meant is how Sarah Bland’s detailed woolwork and patterns were deemed “craft,” while William Morris’ textile designs were “art.” Who is an artist, and who is an artisan? What is preserved in a museum, and what is left on the dustheap of history?
Optional Joy Theme
Some divisions are prejudicial, but there’s a real delight to be found in shared taste. Lifelong partnerships of all kinds, artistic movements, communities of criticism and capability grow up around the generative joy of sharing your opinions! Consider, for example, the trans-oceanic bibliophilic bond between Belle da Costa Greene and Alfred Pollard, or Merve Emre’s "The Critic as Friend,” and go off and create something of *ahem* distinction.
Some examples for your inspiration.
