Picnic food for adults is important but not required. Most art and film scant food, often using it as decoration. Children’s picnics require comfort food. The more carbohydrates and fats, the better the picnic. I’ll treat children’s picnics in a post.
Francisco de Goya. La Merienda a orillas del Manzanares, aka Picnic on the Banks of the Manzanes (1776)
William Powell. Frith. The Derby Day. oil on canvas (1858). Tate Britain
Alfred Hitchcock. To Catch a Thief (1955). Screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on David Dodge’s novel (1952)
Bo Widerberg. Elvira Madigan. The screenplay is by Bo Widerberg (1967)
Douglas McGrath. Emma (1991). The screenplay by Douglas McGrath is based on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel
Judith Linhares. Picnic (2007). gouache
Featured Image: Peter Weir. Picnic at Hanging (1975). The screenplay is by Cliff Green, based on Rachel Lindsay’s novel (1967)