As they say, “the worse the art in restaurants, the better the food.”
Sparkling sky-blue body of water? Check. Rolling hillsides? Check. Rounded archways with marble columns? Check and check. This is Italy as viewed through rose-colored glasses, and it’s likely painted right on the wall at your favorite red sauce joint—including right here atin New York. Like the menu, authenticity isn’t the number-one concern with these murals—which somehow, no matter where they are in the country, all seem to recite the same visual language.
Taste involves memory, and memory involves the imagination—the ‘magic words,’ incantation of place, period, style, etc. And maybe it’s easier—and more politically correct—to render a landscape than the types of people from a given place?”Photo by Chelsie Craig“Both the actual landscape and the painted one are fundamental in Italian history and culture.
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