#FOODART: Imagination on Toast

By: Pratiwi Woro Riesandhini

Does it ever cross your mind if toast that we have as everyday breakfast can be a canvas to express your imagination? A Norwegian food artist and photographer, Ida Skivenes, who loves art and adores surrealism and expressionism paintings, not only tries to transform her creativity through a toast and common healthy food ingredients, but also transform the imaginations of the particular painter all over it. Using iphone camera, she take her creation then appload it to the social media. Let’s have a look to some Ida’s recreation of famous paintings at @idafrosk in Istagram:

#FOODART: Imagination on Toast

#1 Snow Falling in the Lane – Edvard Munch (1906)

Idafrosk used toast, cream cheese, tapenade, pesto, asparagus, tomato and olive to describe two figures walking for a winter walk in Edvard Munch’s Snow Falling in the Lane painting.

#2 The Scream – Edvard Munch (1893)

Looks like she’s quite admiring his creation, she comes back with arranging cream cheese, red and yellow pepper, olive, celery, cheese slice into another famous Munch painting, The Scream.

#4 Christina’s World - Andrew Wyeth (1948)

Christina’s world, painted by Wyeth with the detail and took some months to finish it, describes a polio paralyzed girl, named Christina Olson. It’s not easy to find ingredients that can easy to shape for Ida, but finally she can recreate this painting with freeze dried strawberry, cheddar, cream cheese, fig, and dried blueberry.

#3 Sunflowers – Vincent Van Gogh (1888)

For one Wednesday breakfast, she picked sunflower as breakfast theme, and recreating latter version of Van Gogh painting over the toast. Using apricots, raisins, yogurt and a fig, she started to begin her art toast series project, through her recreation of famous Vincent van Gogh painting, Sunflowers.

#5 The son of Man – René Magritte (1964)

The Son of Man, surrealism painting created by Belgian surrealist, Rene Magritte had been recreated over the toast, using Apple and Cream cheese.