I believe food is art if it’s meant to be looked at or listened with intensity. So it depends on whether the creators intentions is to make it a work of art or not. I believe that all chefs who make food have the intent of displaying their food to the customer as art. Each time they make food and give it to a customer, it has their name on it and is their creation. They will do their best on every dish to make it taste the best and look good each time it is given to a customer. Here is a quote, “If dishes of foods are works of art, then food is an art form. It would be implausible to maintain that food and drink never constitute works of art in the classifying sense. People sometimes treat them as works of art, and i have argued that we can compare the creator of a recipe to a composer, and the cook who follows one to a performer”(21). As long as creator and follow have the intention of making the food art, then it is a work of art. The theory of art that best represents my view of food as an art is postmodernism. It says “Rather than assuming that art reflects a unique and privileged kind of knowledge, postmodernists point out that any truth or reality is only a point of view”(19). It basically says that everybody interprets art according to their own individual and cultural sensibilities. I agree with this and believe that art can be anything you want it to be.
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Your opening line is accurate. Depending on how you look at food is in the eye of the beholder. Obviously you cannot compare fast food to a gourmet restaurant. I really think fast food cannot be considered an art, just because it is produced on such a massive scale. You are getting the worst ingredients that are chemically altered to taste good. It’s hard to say that’s a beautiful process. Slow food on the other hand is the complete opposite. A gourmet restaurant would receive fresh ingredients and take 30 to 45 minutes to prepare the meal. Then they would delicately place the food on the place and create some artistic flare to the dish. This and not to mention all the other prep work they have to do to run their operation, is art. It really is a skill and a practice and when effort is put in, the results show.
I really agree with that food could be art and it depends on whether the creator’s intention is to make it a work of art or not. In the reading, Telfer could this kind of intention is aesthetic consideration, as she explains, “many meals are intended by their cooks to be considered largely in this way- to be savored, appraised, thought about, discussed-and many eaters consider them in this way” (14). Except for the aesthetic consideration, I think the various shapes and colors of food also make it having the elements of visual art. Dissanayake conclude that “art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings that like talking, experience, playing, working, socializing, learning, loving and nurturing should be encouraged and developed in everyone” (26). Cooking food also is our one of necessary behavior in our daily life. Overall, I agree with you that food could be seen as art in some certain extent.