Unit 4 – Food
This week’s section is by far my favorite to discuss because I am a huge foodie. I 100% view food as an art. There are thousands of different things you can prepare with all kinds of foods. It’s the mixture of flavors from savory to sweet as well as the presentation. When watching the fast food presentation, it is difficult to look at that type of food as an art seeing how its chemicals and unhealthy ingredients that go into it to chemically make it taste good although in my opinion that can be see as art. Incorporating other ingredients into a specific dish to make it taste or look better is an example of art. But, the art presented in the fast food industries is a completely different type of art that is in the slow food video. “Thinkers turned their attention to was a subject came to be called aesthetics — a concern with elucidating principles such as taste and beauty that govern all the arts and indeed make them not simply paintings or statues but example of (fine) ‘art’” (p.17). This quote best describes my feeling of how food is art because it is the creation of something beautiful that makes you feel different. Yes, it may not be a picture or painting that you put up and look at everyday, yet it is a different genre of art that makes you create tastes rather then looks. What I think of when the question of if food were art, would be the reading from last week when Dissanayake stated that art is not universal. This explains my theory for food being. Art isn’t just limited to a couple things, yet art can be everywhere and everything from food to painting, to music etc. It is important to view many different aspects of life as art in order to have different perspectives on what art is and really means.
October 24th, 2014 at 9:46 pm
I am a huge goodie, too. I agree with your opinion, “When watching the fast food presentation, it is difficult to look at that type of food as an art seeing how its chemicals and unhealthy ingredients that go into it to chemically make it taste good although in my opinion that can be see as art.” However, in my opinion, the distinction between fast food and slow food are really matter for determining whether food is art or not. Like you said, taste is of course important. Also, the importance of being food as an art is who cooks it. As I have mentioned in my paper, cook with craftsmanship is an artist because the meaning of artist is that a person who practices or performs any of the creative arts so cook deserves to be called artists. Artists create arts, so food made by those kinds of cook deserves to be called art.
October 25th, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Hi Bergs, I am happy that both of us are huge foodies! I enjoy this week’s section because I love food and cooking. As you said that you “100% view food as an art” including “fast food,” do you have a standard or reason that why you view fast food as an art since it might not look got or taste good sometimes? It is true that food can be considered as creatures that make people feel different because people create the dishes by “incorporating other ingredients into a specific dish to make it taste or look better.” In addition, I am wondering that have you found out “what art is and really means?” I think the line of defining art is very blurry and it is hard for me to figure it out.
October 26th, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Hey Karen, Thank you for the comment. Your comment really got my attention when you asked, “if I had a standard or reason” for believing fast food is an art. I personally do not enjoy or eat fast food. Yet, I still believe that it is some sort of art whether it is a good piece of art of a bad. “Art is Universal” that line has stuck with me and makes me, think even more in-depth on what art really is. Art is everything and can be anything, which is why it is so hard to distinguish art from crap. To tie it back to fast food, I believe that combining different ingredients, whether it by chemicals or real food, and making something into a meal that is completely different from each of its own ingredients would be a creation of art. Art can be defined as many things from beautiful, to disturbing, to peaceful etc. So although fast food might not be the most pure art form, I still view it as a type of art.
October 25th, 2014 at 9:33 pm
Hi Bergs, I am happy that both of us are huge foodies! I enjoy this week’s section because I love food and cooking. As you said that you “100% view food as an art” including “fast food,” do you have a standard or reason that why you view fast food as an art since it might not look got or taste good sometimes? It is true that food can be considered as creatures that make people feel different because people create the dishes by “incorporating other ingredients into a specific dish to make it taste or look better.” In addition, I am wondering that have you found out “what art is and really means?” I think the line of defining art is very blurry and it is hard for me to figure it out. However, I do agree with your opinion that “art isn’t just limited to a couple things.” I believe that art is everywhere in our life, waiting people to explore it.