[Sca-cooks] Peacock with bong

[Johnna Holloway]

The website is described at one place as:
"Still-lifes with bongs, Van Dyck’s precocious talent, false  
forgeries, and Vermeer over mint-juleps" An recent OMNP discovery-this  
lighthearted website is the brainchild of Jan Peeters and Hermann  
Wundrum, two art history professors with a penchant for the eloquent  
as well as the absurd. Pithy reflections on altered images like the  
one above, “Still Life with Cheeses, Bong and DVD, 1615, have produced  
commentary such as this by Peeters: “Not even the great Pieter Claesz,  
in his seminal Still Life with Peacock Pie, Bong, and St. Elmo’s Fire  
DVD (1627) captured damask with such verve."

You aren't imagining them. Pithy reflections on altered images...

Johnnae


On Apr 5, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Marcha Daffin wrote:

> I saw that also...Please explanation!!!!
> Bertha
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elise
>> Guillaume sent:
>> >The still life painter Pieter Claesz depicts both turkey and  
>> peacock >pie done in this manner, although the paintings date from  
>> the early >17th century. [snip]
>> >
>> >Peacock:
>> >http://onfamiliarthings.blogspot.com/2008/09/pieter-claesz_27.html
>> Explain please?  This appears to be some type of joke with drug  
>> paraphernalia and a modern CD.  Plus, although the title says  
>> "Peacock", the commentary says "turkey". ("The ripples of shadow on  
>> the monochromatic tablecloth, the glistening skin on the cooked  
>> turkey, the silky transparency of the bong.")
>> Or, haven't I had enough coffee??
>> Alys K.