This picnic has some personal allusion. But what that is stumping me. Featured Image: William Kentridge. My Dear Friend (He That Fled His Fate). Screenprint (1994) See: entry for Kentridge’s Picnic Panic
Vettriano’s Elegy for the Dead Admiral is a beach picnic on the sand at the surf’s edge. A woman in red sits with her back to the viewer facing the sea. She is serenaded by two violinists and served by a waiter. The situation alludes to the death of the...
Harvest Celebration demonstrates a satirical view of Soviet rigidity and social realism and embraces sexuality and lascivious behavior for fun. The subject is a send-up of the farm collective as an agricultural paradise pictured in official Soviet art, such as Feodor...
De’ Medici’s was spired by Giovanni Bellini’s The Feast of the Gods to create this menu, which she says is full of the flavor of the Renaissance: Tuna Mousse/Spuma di Tonno Wild Boar in Sweet and Sour Chocolate Sauce/Cinghiale in Dolceforte Glazed Baby Onion with...
In a pasture at 16,000 feet high, surrounded by the Himalayan peaks, Bank’s stopped for a picnic on the road to Lhasa. The campsite is chosen not by hunger but by availability. It was level enough for a camp. Their motorcar is unpacked, a fire lighted, and tea...
Woodson’s We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past (1997) is a joyous family gathering with mounds to eat. It’s a story about an African American family reunion picnic in an urban park. The narrator, a young girl, comes with her Grandma, who has worked frying...
Bad day, worse picnic! Featured Image: Sue Williams. Picnic (from Whitney Biennial Portfolio). Lithograph. (1997)
Kentridge likes copies of images, each a variation on reality fluctuations. Sometimes he makes triptychs, other times diptychs as in the Picnic/Panic etchings produced for Sleeping on Glass (1999). For the diptych Picnic/Panic, Kentridge contrasted cups and saucers on...
Bruce Sargeant is a persona of Mark Beard. The picnic is a pleasantly simple: he is asleep, and she is awake, staring into space. A picnic basket sits idly in the far corner. Boy and Girl is large, 26.5 x 87 inches.
Pantell’s painting Backyards is an urban scene behind the street façade. He finds a family sitting at a picnic table among the things he sees. The trees are bare in either early spring or late fall. But the hearty picnickers are taking in the city air in their meager...
