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Decor Disputes: What’s Up With Kitchen Art?

by on Nov 9, 2012

Fruit, vegetables, coffee cups, wine glasses, kitchen utensils, chefs with laughably large toques and roosters are some of the images that appear when you search ‘kitchen art’ on just about any poster/art website. Why? Who said that that’s what constitutes art appropriate for the kitchen?

Italian Cafe  Fine-Art Print

Okay, maybe a traditional, literal interpretation of still life with dispatched fish or game might not be that appetizing to display over your eating area…..

Still Life with Fish - Edouard Manet

…..but roosters? What’s appetizing about a rooster? Especially a live one? Yeah, I know, top ‘o the mornin’, cock-a-doodle-doo, blah, blah, blah, but why can’t kitchen art be, you know, just art? If you’ve read this far, you can probably tell where I come down on the subject. How about you? Yes to themed kitchen art or not?

Le Coq I Art Print