I would like to know how to find words, phrases or names, each of
which is related both to food and to art.
Reason:
I am compiling (for fun) a crossword which is to include both food
words and art(ist) words. I would like to find some words which are in
both categories.
These categories can be interpreted very loosely. Vegetables, names
of dishes, cuts of meat, famous cookery writers, spices ... ; schools
of art, names of painters, statues, titles of works of art, media,
names of galleries ...
Of course it is 'easy' to find lists of food words and lists of
art(ist) words in books. Also, byrd-ga, in answering GA question
534509, told us about the OneLook Reverse Dictionary
<http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml>.
I could combine a huge food list with a huge art/ist list, and see
which words occur twice. But that is hard work. Don't try that for me
for $6.
I don't need all that many, as only a few can be fitted into a 15x15
crossword grid. A dozen as good as my examples below would be fine.
Does anyone *know* a simple way to do this? I can't afford to pay you
a realistic amount to do extensive research. But perhaps there is an
elegant solution?
Examples:
MUNCH, BACON, POUSSIN (all painter's surnames).
THE POTATO EATERS (painting by Van Gogh).
ARCIMBOLDO (painter of portraits using vegetable components).
VINDALOO AND RICE (well-known anagram of) LEONARDO DA VINCI.
BASIL BRUSH (much-beloved humorous UK TV fox puppet, herb and artist's implement!)
OK, it would be hard work to find many examples like the last three.
But at least you see what I mean.
It's a long shot, but interesting, don't you think? |
Clarification of Question by
videoga-ga
on
27 Jul 2005 15:48 PDT
This is a neat and unexpected suggestion, pafalafa-ga (bad luck
answerfinder-ga!). It should certainly generate some ideas in the
"food as the subject of a picture" category.
The Google Images searches suggested by czh-ga are worth a look but
include non-art photographs, line-art and so on as well as 'real' art.
Lists of individual suggestions as in myoarin-ga's comment are of
course welcome, though again mainly restricted so far to the "food as
the subject of a picture" category. By all means offer more, anyone.
I'm interested to know there are books on the subject:
Food in Painting: From the Renaissance to the Present / Kenneth Bendiner
Feasting: Celebration of Food in Art / James Yood
I think I'll have to rule out the likes of
The Art of the Tart / Tamasin Day-Lewis
The Art of Food Sculpture / Yuci Tan
My main hope is that there will be suggestions about finding words in
the other categories shown in my examples. I was hoping for a direct
approach, using an online thesaurus perhaps ... anyone knowledgeable
about the semantic web and all that? Perhaps this asks too much.
Any further lines of enquiry from you clever people?
Thanks,
video-ga
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