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# Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/some-doritos-with-your-goya-old-master-still-lifes-get-an-update/
- Published: 2015-11-26T18:56:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:14:53.000Z
- Description: With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
- Author: John Seed
- Tags: Art, Francisco de Goya, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Photo Essays, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

!["Kitchen Still Life with a Copper Cauldron, a Mortar and Pestle, a Leek, and a Gallon of Milk" (after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/chardin_mashup.jpg)

“Kitchen Still Life with a Copper Cauldron, a Mortar and Pestle, a Leek, and a Gallon of Milk” (after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin) (all illustrations by the author for Hyperallergic)

With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them? Some of the answers — in visual form here — are strikingly strange and darkly funny.

Each image is accompanied with the name of the artist whose original painting has been used for my satirical purposes. I hope they will all forgive me from their graves.

!["Still Life of a Rotisserie Chicken, a Ham and Olives on Pewter Plates with a Bread Roll, an Orange, Wineglasses and a Rose on a Wooden Table" (after Oslas Beer)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/still_life_fowl_mashup.jpg)

“Still Life of a Rotisserie Chicken, a Ham and Olives on Pewter Plates with a Bread Roll, an Orange, Wineglasses and a Rose on a Wooden Table” (after Oslas Beer)

!["Still Life with Cake and Red Bull" (after Raphaelle Peale)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/peale_mashup.jpg)

“Still Life with Cake and Red Bull” (after Raphaelle Peale)

!["Still Life with Salmon and Doritos" (after Francisco Goya)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/goya_doritos.jpg)

“Still Life with Salmon and Doritos” (after Francisco Goya)

!["Still Life with Oysters and Pepsi-Cola" (after Willem Claeszoon Heda)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/dutch_mashup_pepsi.jpg)

“Still Life with Oysters and Pepsi-Cola” (after Willem Claeszoon Heda)

!["Butcher's Stall with Mylar Cow Balloon and the Flight into Egypt" (after Pieter Aertsen)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/aertsen_mashup.jpg)

“Butcher’s Stall with Mylar Cow Balloon and the Flight into Egypt” (after Pieter Aertsen)

!["Vanitas Still Life With Skull and iPhone Clock" (after Pieter Claesz)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/vanitas_mashup.jpg)

“Vanitas Still Life With Skull and iPhone Clock” (after Pieter Claesz)