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Announcing our Creative Grants recipients
Having It
Both Ways
Is it better to possess a thing of beauty, or to experience the ultimate consummation of oneness with that beautiful thing by actually consuming it... and being left only with the memory of its beauty? Leave it up to our deviantARTists to think of a way to have it both ways – but left over as a feast for the eyes, preserved eternally on the digital planes of deviantART.
Craft, design, and artistry as applied to the most delicious and sinful of the culinary disciplines rises forth as we shine warming a light on this small but incredibly skilled serving of artists within the deviantART community. In an effort to taste all of the communities within deviantART, let’s take a quick exit off the main freeway of art categories and stop inside the open-all-night eatery for a re-fuelling of the most important food group:
Cakes, pies and cupcakes
It is a decidedly sweet batch of artwork.
There are rows of identical Twinkies (or used to be) and then there are these carefully crafted monuments to pop culture icons constructed from a palette of sugar and ingenious design ideas. The group #dA-Cake-Artists features a wide array of cakes produced by artists from every deviantART kitchen. Sample the artistic recipes given beneath many of these deviations describing the process and story behind each creation. Watch the group for what I am sure will a very interesting Holiday season of elaborately designed edible artworks submitted over the next month. Also check out #FoodIsArt.
Many of these artworks fall into the “how could they have possibly made that happen” category. This dragon “Skyward Sword :: Furnix Cake” by *cakecrumbs is especially noteworthy. I am sure having a Master's degree in Zoology helped a bit while Rhiannon was designing this dragon. Or was it hours playing Zelda while munching on sweets? Something must stir her incredible talent and skill.
People have always had an obsessional and mystical relationship with the demands of their stomachs, significant enough for eternal recording. When contemplating the Neolithic cave paintings of early humanity and marveling at the loving detail informing the herds of prehistoric gazelle that were the early hunters’ prey, one must wonder, was it the adrenaline rush of the hunt that the artist was trying to capture, or was he merely consumed with mankind’s most pressing daily question:
What’s for lunch?
I am assuming I have to turn in my copy of “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” after that last line. But, one should ask how an artist could complete one of these works on these pages without eating it before it is born (I mean fully baked). Obviously it’s better at the end of the day to be covered by butter, sugar and frosting than paints full of toxic if not fatal chemicals.
2) EEEEEEE I don't now
3) I would LOOOOOOOOOOOVE tried doing art of food.
4) I LOOOOVE cupcakes and pancakes
2) there are no lines...cake is already a masterpiece <3 lol
3)if i was capable of doing so while being able to keep it forever..maybe...as of now..prob not XD
4) CAKEEEEE
When it stops tasting good because its all plastic
yes, it would be awesome to learn to create something like those cakes, though i've never tried
chocolate pudding with some chocolate ice cream ( Yay Chocolate
I wish I had cake around for whenever I finished an art project, unfortunately I just have a glass of water and perhaps a handful of crackers.
I wish I could do something like these, unfortunately I don't have the time or skill at the moment.
2.when i recieve food posioning from my curiosity.
3.it depends, id have to improve my cooking skills before i try, but yes i would.
4.yellow and strawberry tripple layer cake with vinialla icing with whip cream and strawberries on top!
2. When there is either so much non-edible stuff to hold it up that there's no point to eating it, or there is more fondant than cake. Nobody can eat more than a few bites of that stuff, not even me.
3. Lots of times. Every year I make the Christmas cookies and the sugar cookies are all frosted as realistically as possible. We have weird cookies like roosters, cows, pigs, etc. and then some normal ones like angels, trees and reindeer.
4. Basically anything that has cream or chocolate (or both) and no nuts.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Oftentimes it's something light and simple. Potato chips, chocolates... yeah. I don't usually eat meals while drawing/painting though.
2. Where would you draw the line between decorative art and sculpture in cake art?
Decorative art would serve as just that--decoration on the cake. Sculpture would be the whole thing.
3. Would you consider making art out of food or have you every tried doing so?
I tried it a few times, and would like to do it again if I have the chance.
4. What is your favorite form of dessert?
So long as it tastes good [and hopefully looks nice too], it's fine with me.
I try not to eat and draw, smudges are hell. Must be something that lasts a while.
2)Where would you draw the line between decorative art and sculpture in cake art?
I don't think there is one. What is art applies to all genres of art.
3)Would you consider making art out of food or have you every tried doing so?
I have tried,will keep trying!
4)What is your favorite form of dessert?
Chocolate..something.
Love the features, very impressive!
2) Probably just before the cake is a sculpture made of frosting
3) Maybe, not to the scale of some of these chefs
4) Milk Chocolate fudge