Art & Soul Short #43
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda). Luis Meléndez (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid). ca. 1772. Oil on canvas. 41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x 153.7 cm). Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art open access. Seed No more than the one in the web, that world inside the autumn squash, senses the world outside firm flesh, thick-slick skin, tangled green umbilical cord, soil from which it feeds, grows, sun from which it draws, swells, air it dwells in, water-life from bulging clouds. Do