Word: bodegon
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...hanging. They give you a little bit so you have to have some more," says Fernando Martinez, a Mexican who works as a restaurant chef in Washington but snacks off-hours on miniportions of mussels in vinaigrette sauce, meat-filled puff pastries, and avocado stuffed with shrimp at El Bodegon, a Spanish restaurant in the capital. Jose Lopez, one of the owners of the successful El Bodegon, reports that tapas got off to a slow start in % Washington three years ago. "The biggest problem was people not knowing about tapas," he says...
...wall the rest, and the corpse is huddled not quite in the center of the table. These slight departures from absolute regularity give the centered, single image a murmur, no more, of instability. The scheme is one of the most widely known in Spanish painting: the tradition of the bodegon, or kitchen still life, the isolated object against a plain field, brought to its fullest intensity by Zurbaran and Sanchez Cotan in the early 17th century. Echoes of the bodegones continued in Spanish art for hundreds of years; they could still be seen in Picasso's cubist still lifes...
...swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies as to rival the best bodegon paintings of Zurbaran...
...provincial beginnings often confer a certain intensity on painters. The eye becomes obsessive, prehensile. Sanchez Cotán was a cloistered monk who never went outside Spain-but his Bodegon of vegetables (see color overleaf) is one of the most remarkable still-lifes ever painted. Each form-the ribbed curves of the cardoon stalks, the fleshy convolutions of the hanging cabbage, the ragged lace of the lettuce-is rendered with breathtaking economy. The picture is a lesson in ideal vegetarian geometry, with the slice of lemon and the slender cones of carrots occupying space like Renaissance mathematical models...
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