Braque, an equally rigorous painter, would later be described, for the precision and structure of his pictures, as the Chardin of cubism.

ECONOMIST: Chardin

Little is known about Chardin the man.

ECONOMIST: Chardin

Yet she noted also that how to catch the passage of time in a still image is an old problem, one that Chardin was exploring over 200 years ago when he painted a boy making a house of cards.

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An even more egregious omission, given that this book attempts to look at how cuisine defines French culture as a whole, is visual art: there is no mention of the sumptuous culinary still-lifes by Chardin, the countless Impressionist picnics, brioches by Bonnard or mealtimes by Matisse, images that have literally transformed food into art in a specifically French way.

ECONOMIST: French cuisine