These Artists Turn Appetite into Art

Painting food is as old as art history itself. There is a clear throughline from ancient cave paintings of hunting scenes to Andy Warhol’s soup cans, via Paul Cézanne’s fruit and Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s vegetable-headed figures. In the summer of 2023, a fresco unearthed in Pompeii even appeared to show a 2,000-year-old precursor to pizza.