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    Food Art: From Cave Paintings To Instagram

    The evolution of our obsession with visually documenting the food we eat. Nom nom... art!

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    Those Instagram foodies thought they'd all caught on to something new, but it turns out they're just continuing a 30,000 year old tradition of documenting food.

    A Feast Fit For Fred Flinstone

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    It's widely accepted in academia that representations of animals in prehistoric cave paintings were part of hunting rituals. These little beasties are from the Lascaux cave in France. They were painted more than 17,000 years ago.

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    Pharaoh's Favorites

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    Ancient Egyptians often adorned their tombs with mouth-watering 2D drawings of their favorite snacks, like the Pharaoh's beloved Nabisco crackers (Ritz > Wheat Thins > Triscuits).

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    The Emperor's Excellent Eats

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    The Romans were like the Joneses of the olden days. You had to keep up. They were conquering and spreading their empire and partying it up. They were basically the Kardashians of ancient times.

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    Still Lifes

    What is Juan Sanchez Cotan trying to say with this piece? That quince fruit is inherently better than cabbage, melon, and cucumber? Or is he saying that we are all fruit, suspended in time and space, at the edge of a dark abyss?

    Insert the continued ramblings of an existential crisis here.

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    Cubist Compotiers

    Picasso got in on the act with a couple foodie collages. He was searching for meaning in the chaos of World War I and apparently he found it in food and a bottle of Suze. Go ahead and eat your feelings, Picasso, eat 'em right up.

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    Other Super Cool Food Paintings

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    The Foodie Phenomenon

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    The camera opened up "art" to the masses. And Instagram gave these "artists" a virtual gallery to display all their work. And guess what! Everyone's favorite subject is food. (Also, cats. Always cats.)

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    BONUS: Rembrandt's PETA Campaign

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    This piece is called "Slaughtered Ox." I'm pretty sure this is the first pro-vegetarian artwork ever created.

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