Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
I thought of the engulfing silence always created by cold and falling snow as I looked out the front window of our house, imagining as “Winter Pig”, in a watercolor by James Wyeth, as she pondered that same engulfing silence of snow from the front door of he sty.
The Cook by Italian artist and designer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (ca.1527 – 1593) has been added to the Porkopolis Museum of Art. In this work the painting of a platter of roast suckling pigs and fowls, when inverted, shows us the image of a man’s head – the cook. This work is one of Arcimboldo’s many … Read more