Vegan Vegetarianism in Art (with a side of Meat in Art)
Channel: Mark Mathew Braunstein
Date: 2019-05-31

Contents in 6 parts:
Part 1 – Fruits & Veggies; Part 2 – Fishing & Hunting; Part 3 – Carnality & Iconography; Part 4 --  Pieter Bruegel; Part 5 – Calves’ Milk; Part 6 – The Ark

European and American art depicts many cutesy storybook animals, sometimes unwittingly portraying our exploitation of them, and especially of them for food. With those exploited animals in mind, here are explored the hidden meanings of icons of art history whose narratives reveal more than meets the eye.

Narration and slideshow by Mark Mathew Braunstein.
For a downloadable slideshow of the stills of these images and for list of these artworks' Artists, Titles, Dates, and Collection, see:
https://www.MarkBraunstein.Org/veg-in-art

The research for and videography of this narrated slideshow was supported by a 2019 grant from the Culture and Animals Foundation.  
https://www.CultureAndAnimals.Org

List of the artists, in the order of their appearance:
Giuseppe ARCIMBOLDO
Luis MELENDEZ
Albert FLAMEN
Ando (Utagawa) HIROSHIGE
Winslow HOMER
John James AUDUBON
Arthur TAIT
Pieter AERTSEN
Joachim BEUCKELAER
REMBRANDT van Rijn
Honoré DAUMIER
Chaim SOUTINE
Bartolomeo PASSEROTTI
Pieter BRUEGEL the Elder
Jean-François MILLET
Les GRIMES & Arno JORDAN
Sue COE
Hieronymus BOSCH 
Jan BRUEGHEL the Elder
Jacopo BASSANO
Edward HICKS 
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Image Credits:
Except for the images noted below, all these images were downloaded from the web, almost always from the museums’ own websites or from Wikipedia Commons. 

• The Melendez homage "Still Life with Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich" was photographed by this narrator, Mark Mathew Braunstein.
• The three inset photos of the meat market were shot in 2018 during his Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain by Jonathan Deitch.
• The Beuckelaer market scene paintings of "The Four Elements" were shot in the museum by Robert Baldwin, Professor of Art History, Connecticut College.
• "Farmer John Hog Heaven" was scanned from the book, "Dead Meat," by Sue Coe.
• "The Ark" was provided by the artist Sue Coe upon this grateful narrator’s request, and he especially thanks her for permission to reproduce here five of her artworks.

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