Victoria Reynolds's meat paintings

Victoria Reynolds creates oil paintings of raw meat. I think they're quite sensuous and I don't even eat the stuff. Seen here, "Flight of the Reindeer," (2003, 32" x 43.75"). Link to meat paintings, Link to more info at Señor Enrique (via Right Some Good)

[#1 posted by Tits McGee , February 18, 2008 6:46 PM]

The pimento loaf is breathtaking.

[#2 posted by trimeta , February 18, 2008 6:51 PM]

Mmm...meat. These paintings are making me hungry.

Also, apparently she got high-quality meat to paint; this stuff is really well-marbled.

[#3 posted by Johnny Coelacanth , February 18, 2008 7:06 PM]

That one above is too squicky for me. I don't want to look at meat, I just want to eat it.

[#4 posted by nandorocker , February 18, 2008 7:08 PM]

http://web.archive.org/web/20060619022326/http://www.sataniclust.com/05_07-12/ar_raw_sensuality.htm
If anyone would like to read the interview mentioned in the blog entry (the site is currently down).

[#5 posted by William Joseph Dunn , February 18, 2008 7:46 PM]

These are beautiful! I've done paintings of raw meat as well and I think if you look at even rotting meat objectively,the shapes and colors can be beautiful.

[#6 posted by Sanjames , February 18, 2008 8:13 PM]

For some more raw meat, check out the photographs of Pinar Yolacan. She uses the flesh as garment elements. Really compelling images.

[#7 posted by David Pescovitz , February 18, 2008 8:46 PM]

@NANDOROCKER (#4), Thanks for digging up that link!

[#8 posted by Agent 86 , February 18, 2008 9:41 PM]

I have to admit "Flight of the Reindeer" is very good, but the rest just looks more like meat than art to me.

[#9 posted by amyrussell , February 18, 2008 10:47 PM]

Reynold's work made the cover of the first issue of Meatpaper (www.meatpaper.com) a magazine of meat-art (and other meaty stuff) I co-edit. Link to the Reynolds image is no longer online, but Issue Three comes out in a couple weeks.

[#10 posted by Talia , February 18, 2008 11:31 PM]

The physiology of life is beautiful in those first few post-death moments. I imagine 24 hours from now that flesh won't be quite so lovely, as all that's good it in drains and dies, becomes nothing.

To me, the loss of life is the most significant thing about these pictures, the most impactful. I can't help but wonder about the creature that spawned these images of flesh.

[#11 posted by Takuan , February 18, 2008 11:53 PM]

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989), the scene where they must hide, naked, in a truck trailer full of dangling sides of rotting meat....

or the birth scene at the beginning of Perfume?

[#12 posted by Agent 86 , February 19, 2008 2:56 AM]

Perfume... What a fitting beginning for such a gruesome end.

[#13 posted by Robert , February 19, 2008 5:35 AM]

"Flight of the Reindeer"... just before the reindeer is hit by a car. Urgh, where's my unicorn chaser?

[#14 posted by Yhancik , February 19, 2008 5:39 AM]

http://scotteveringham.com/ also made some meat paintings, although i can't find it back online (except on the splash page of his portfolio)

[#15 posted by Jeff , February 19, 2008 6:16 AM]

Kinda beautiful. I thought it was a red cabbage leaf before I read the caption. An odd choice of subject matter unless you are illustrating a medical text, or decorating a butcher shoppe.