Young Girl with Still Life
fast food portrait with young girl still life a car and a knife
how can i turn straw into gold
- the scene
- the set
- the props
- the actors
- the action
- the social license
- the audience
- the critic
- the dealer
- the manifestation
in the solar system 99.86% mass is in the sun
- the scene - the presentation of the harvest, the $12 green smoothie, the raw foods, the whole foods take out, white spot parking lot, eating in the car, oil soup, drink gasoline wine and coal bread
- the set - the car, the table, the house, the store, the park, the picnic table, layout the wrappers in pattern
- the props - the knife, the scale, the ruler, a wax candle burning, christ and madonna, santa muerte
- the action - to be photographed, to present ripe fruits and be presented as ripe fruit, to cut, to weigh with a scale and to measure with a ruler, dissect the fast food, inspect, spill in the parking, embroidering (?)
- overt obedience - covert resistance
- embellishment - hand-color the wrapper
- manifestation - autopano giga quilt of 8 canvasses of 40 x 20 for infinite detail
- beauty as the raw food, the food
- beast as the wrappers, the waste
photo shoot scene
- language as tool that teaches tool making
- language that replicates itself
- people as language
- photographs as statements
- posts instagram. as questions. as instructions.
the set:
a studio office
a table
hanging on the edge of the table is a sign - never give up never surrender
on the table a macbook with the museum site with the painting of a girl
on the table the book embassytown
on the table the picture triple self portrait
the mirror of the camera of the mac of the ipad
like There was a human girl who in pain ate what was given her in an old room built for eating in which eating had not happened for a time
like there was a human girl who in 1620 looked and dressed in her best clothes and her hair done it’s best, stared straight at the painter while sitting at the table with fresh pressed linen and the finest silver di
Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten
(?) about 1585 – Haarlem after 1655
Young Girl with Still Life
About 1620
Oil on wood
72.4 x 104 cm
Purchase, gift of Miss Olive Hosmer, inv. 1959.1214
Attracting attention early in his career for his many kitchen and market scenes, the work of Van Schooten provides a perfect example of the Dutch tradition of painting real life. Here he depicts a young woman before a laden table. Frontally positioned and strictly parallel to the painting’s frame, the white tablecloth–covered table is seen from above, enabling the viewer to admire all the objects and foodstuffs. In this simple composition, the contrast between the predominantly orangey red palette of colours and the dark background lends an indisputable presence to the woman gazing steadily at us.
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/collections/early-to-modern-international-art/#detail-8949