Memento Mori: Death and Feasting in Still Life with Hunting Trophies
Feasting in Art
Food is a rich theme in the visual arts. Based on collections at the Ackland Museum, students developed a virtual gallery about "The Feast", choosing works to study and interpret.



Bridging the Gap

Backyard BBQ Staple Turned Art

Beyond the Bun: Discovering Absurdity in the Mundane

The Hot Dog as a Self-Contained Feast in Hot Dog Bridge


Still Life With Hunting Trophies: Understanding It in a Modern Context


Dominance and Art in the Dutch Golden Age

Finding Community in the Common

Frankly Absurd: Satirized American Idealism in Hot Dog Bridge


Staging Japanese Men


What is Wine?

Virgo – Unmatched Enjoyment

Suite of Six Knots of Ribbon Adorned with Flowers


Stop Horsin’ Around on the Meat Taboo


Snapshots of Change in American Food Identity and the American Dream


La Última Cena: Horrifying Holiness


Hungry for Power


Hierarchy and Hippophagy


Gluttony and the Lord Mayor’s Day Feast


A Narrative on the Anti-Feast

A Good Cup of Tea (When the Duty is Taken Off)


Yearning


To Kill a Persimmon


The Virtues of Simplicity


The Most Famous Triumph of Bacchus


The Fiesta of Santa Anita


The Feast as a Form of Worship


Silenus and Bacchus on a Donkey with a Satyr


Savage Supper


Reine de Joie


Jupiter's Return as the Sun King


Immortalizing Wealth in the Dutch Age


Feast of the Dead


Escapism: Dream or Reality?


Drug Store: Food and Community in Post-War America


Dance in a Garden
Images courtesy of the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.ackland.org