Pizza and Painting

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Pizza and Painting

• An Interdisciplinary Experience and Exploration
• William Spaulding
• Chef Paul Waszkelewicz

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Pizza and Painting

• Food as Art

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Food as Art?
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Is food art a new idea?
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No!

• Ornate edible architecture and sculptures have
  been part of human culture for perhaps thousands
  of years!

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• Ornate edible
• architecture and sculptures were often created
  for celebrations in the
• cities and courts of
• early modern Europe.

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• On June 30, 1750, Gaetano de Luca created a
  sumptuous display of herbs from his pharmacy in
  Rome.

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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.
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Principles of Food Art

• 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!

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Creating Your Food Art
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Create Your Food Art A Personal Pizza
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Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to
Remember
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Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to
Remember 1. The dough is our canvas.
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Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to
Remember 2. The toppings are our paint.
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Two Comparisons of Pizza and Painting to
Remember 1. The dough is our canvas.2. The
toppings are our paint.
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How will you Evaluate Your Pizza Art ?
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Steps to Creating Your Pizza Art

• Mix and make pizza dough.

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The Canvas Pizza Dough
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Steps to Creating Your Pizza Art

• Mix and make pizza dough.
• Roll out (hand or roller) then dock.
• Spread sauce leave a border.
• Arrange cheese and toppings.

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How will you Evaluate Your Pizza Art ?

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

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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

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Describing and Evaluating Paintings(And other
types of visual arts!)
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• We use
• the same concepts
• used to describe and evaluate pizza

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• We use
• the same concepts
• used to describe and evaluate pizza
• when we describe and evaluate visual art!

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Concepts of Evaluation

• Pizza
• (Before Cooking)
• first impressions
• color
• texture
• arrangement of toppings

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Concepts of Evaluation

• Pizza
• (Before Cooking)
• first impressions
• color
• texture
• arrangement of toppings

• Painting
• first impressions
• color
• texture
• arrangement of toppings

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Apply these concepts of evaluation to the
following paintings to see how it works
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A3 blackface 59 Iona Rozeal Brown acrylic on
paper 50" x 38"
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Mexico Zacula 1983Sean Scully (American, b.
Ireland, 1945) Watercolor on paper 8 x 10 in.
(20.32 x 25.4 cm) Met
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Fishing in Spring, The Pont de Clichy (Asnières),
1887Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 18531890 Oil on
canvas 19 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (50.5 x 60 cm) The
Art Institute of Chicago, Met Exhibit Site
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View of ToledoEl Greco (Domenikos
Theotokopoulos) (Greek, 15411614)Oil on
canvas 47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (121.3 x 108.6 cm)
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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
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Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
Mori Ransai Japan Mid-Edo period, late 18th
century AD
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Birds and Flowers, a hanging scroll painting
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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
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Sources Food Art

• The Edible Monument. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
  Angeles. http//www.getty.edu/research/conducting_
  research/digitized_collections/ediblemonument/inde
  x2.html. Access 10/23/06
• Pepperoni flower. http//www.hormel.com/kitchen/im
  ages/refimages/seasonedinsight/pepperoni/monster2.
  jpg
• Food Art http//sickflash.com/food_art.html
• http//www.thaicorner.co.uk/Carving20papaya.jpg
• Food Basket Face http//images.google.com/imgres?
  imgurlhttp//www.allisonglassworks.com/foodart/fo
  od64.jpgimgrefurlhttp//www.allisonglassworks.co
  m/food4.htmlh453w500sz21hlenstart51tbni
  d1KtLo2FffFeBAMtbnh118tbnw130prev/images3
  Fq3Dfood2Bart26start3D4026ndsp3D2026svnum3
  D1026hl3Den26lr3D26sa3DN

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Sources Art Evaluation

• See also the notes section (notes view) of this
  file
• Kimball http//www.kimbellart.org/database/index.c
  fm?regionyesmainregion4
• Hydria http//www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gkhy/hob_0
  6.1021.77.htm
• Mexico Zacula http//www.metmuseum.org/special/se
  an_scully/view_1.asp?item12viewl
• Fishing in Spring http//www.metmuseum.org/special
  /cezanne_to_picasso/view_1.asp?item6viewl
• 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/hi
  xclient.exe?_IXDB_compass_IXSR_rc5_IXSS__IXDB
  _3dcompass2625242bwith2ball_unique_id_index2
  bis2bOBJ21003d252e26_IXspage3dfull252f26_IX
  SESSION_3dxckZVHcdMaT_IXFIRST_1_IXSPFX_graphi
  cal/full/lg_IXimgps349899.jpgsubmit-buttonsumm
  ary
• Smithsonian Education http//www.smithsonianeducat
  ion.org/educators/lesson_plans/landscape_painting/
  creating_illusions.html

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Hydria (water jar) depicting women at a fountain
house, ca. 510500 B.C. Archaic, black-figure
Greek, Attic Terracotta H. 37.47 cm Met. NY
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