Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies and food
I’m watching with considerable interest and enjoyment Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies on Watch Instantly. Highly recommended if you like movies and art—and who doesn’t?
I’m just at the point where Chuck Close is talking about how in cubist paintings it’s as if the color has been sucked out—like taking a color TV and turning the color adjustment way down. He said that he couldn’t say what their reasons were, but he got rid of color in his paintings because he didn’t want to depend on it, he didn’t want the entertainment value of color in the paintings. And by taking it out, putting it aside, he could could better focus on the structure, the information, the rest of the painting.
It occurred to me that is part of what the template does: by taking fat, starch, and protein out of the picture, as it were, by specifying them so precisely as to quantity (2 tsp, scant serving, 3-4 oz respectively) and by settling on just a few handy options (olive oil, duck fat, or butter; whole grain itself or as coucous or pasta; tofu or tempeh), I can now focus totally on the vegetables and the prep choices, though more and more I do a kind of stew without the liquid: using very little liquid, just enough for the starch to absorb as it cooks (and steam the greens). I do sauté some of the veg first.
Still: the point is that by subtracting the traditional focus—the first thing that hits your eye normally—and removing that from consideration, the remainder stands in much higher relief and becomes of greater interest. As you see.
Good movie, anyway.
