Unit 04

Caitlin Freeman, Leah Rosenberg and Tess Wilson are three artists and pastry chef for Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco. They create simply and beautiful desserts inspired by modern art. The book Modern Art Desserts wrote by Caitlin Freeman. This book is an amazing place to inspire people to express their ideas through desserts. Here is the website they introduce some artworks created.

From Caitlin’s perspective, Desserts is not only art but also a modern art tool. The website FLICKR shows some desserts which exhibited at the SFMOMA. It illustrates their artistic desserts and the inspiration which are some modern artworks. Desserts have aesthetic appearance, and the majority of people feel sweet and lovely when they see desserts, especially for girls. A lot of girls would like the opportunity to treat themself with a dessert. Basically, all my friends like desserts, and especially almost every girl are crazy about dessert because of their amazing appearance. I always hear that “This cake is too beautiful to eat”. Personally, I think people like eating dessert for several reasons. First, most desserts looks very attractive, and the appearance of fine desserts attract a lot of people. Exquisite desserts appearance can stimulate the sense of visual. For example workers who temporarily leave the boring and repetitive work, and it is definitely a good choice to see such a rich aesthetic desserts at that time. Enjoying the beautiful things can relax both body and mind, and at this time the dessert is no longer a simple food, but a work of art. Here is a clip shows how Caitlin create the art of desserts.

Also, desserts can stimulate the sense of taste. According to studies, there is a great use of dessert is releasing the psychological pressure, and this is exactly one of art’s objectives and impacts. Sweet could allow buds fully enjoy the taste, of course, and this dessert is sweet rather than greasy. Imagining, when you taste the sweet and refreshing ice cream and the moment let it melt slowly in the tongue and sweet gradually filled, and then the mood will naturally feel comfortable. At the moment, you would just want to enjoy a delicious, and put all the troubles behind. Art is about to look up everything with an art point of view which means positive for me. There is no doubt that not everyone can exactly read artworks, but everyone could have sense of aesthetic appreciation of food. It is an amazing approach to create desserts by the inspiration of modern art, because the advantage is advocating modern art through food which is more familiar with our life. At the same time, it is a kind of attitude of living express everything in our live has connection, and no matter it is food or art. There are a thousands of perspectives seeing the world and expressing your ideas, food is one of the amazing perspectives because food is our life.

Work Cited

http://www.modernartdesserts.com/templates

https://www.flickr.com/photos/51653636@N02/sets/72157624277977793/with/4753047179/#_=_

Occasionally, I hear some people said, “This dish is too beautiful to eat”, and they may also said, “This dish is like a beautiful work of art.” In the bottom of this case, people who eat the food actually pay attention on color, appearance and shape. Of course, their so-called “art” belongs to the visual arts. Nowadays, there is a popular way to express idea through food, and artists become food to visual art in a variety of ways. Artists remove nature of the most important features of food to sublimate food to be able to make people appreciate the art. Telfer mentioned, “The essence of the process [of duplication] is that it enables an artist to produce many copies of one work. Since we can call each engraving a work of art, we can call each pie a work of art, at least in the classifying sense,” (Telfer, 17). Everything could be called “art”. Therefore, I think food is art, because beautiful food could be visual art and also artists create art by using food. However, the question is why would they think that only the desirable food could be called art?

If we think about the question from the other side, the “eating” is also seen as a way to appreciate art, because the mouth also is an artistic touch. Assume there are no eyes and ears anymore, so the teeth and the tongue is a way to stir the human perception of art. In this way, we will be able to find the most experienced food adventure and the most specific nature of food. Therefore, if the food is really an art, so the only way we appreciate this art is to destroy it. We can experience the full beauty of food through action of eating, in order to understand the essence of food as an art. The value of food is the moment of a lifetime’s death, because we can never enjoy the food if we don not destroy the food. Food is art, and the only way we enjoy it is to eat it.