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Autumn pumpkins Painting

Oil painting, Canvas One of a kind artwork Size: 40 × 70 × 2 cm (unframed) Original Created: 2021 This artwork is sold unframed The artwork is titled and signed on the front and back sides and also comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Original Created: 2021

Details & Dimensions

Painting: Oil on Canvas

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Autumn pumpkins Painting

Details & Dimensions

Artist Recognition

How the pumpkin became an American icon

Back to its roots

Ripening popularity

Display Of Autumn Colors With Pumpkins And Corn Photo

Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size: 27.6 W x 15.8 H x 0.8 D in

Frame: Not Framed

Ready to Hang: Not applicable

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Greetings! My name is Polina and I am a full-time artist. I was born in Moscow, but now live and work in Tbilisi. My art is focusing in oil painting and digital art. My art investigates the attitude of man to the world through the objects which he surrounds himself. What the objects were in human world and what they’ve become. I convey my observations by the imaging people and household items, but a special place on my paintings is occupied by the images of animals and birds. Today, when the man surrounds himself with different things more and more, which seem to him reflective his own individuality, the very essence of the things becomes superficial. What place in the world of this things do animals occupy? Another man? The animals living next to man are the part of his «objectively» world, but does it mean that he treats them like a thing? Another people like a thing? In my artworks I wonder about the appropriateness reasonableness of «objectivity» and visual consumption. I paint in oils and choose saturated colors and apply tap the technique of collage into my oil painting and digital art. By the realistic figurative images inclosing in simple geometric figures, I make my artworks similar to vividly colorfully advertisement. In my art I don’t try to image the essence of the object, surrounding me. I just discussing about the place it does occupy in my world.

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How the pumpkin became an American icon

From a vegetable of necessity to an edible icon, learn how the humble pumpkin experienced a dramatic transformation in American culture.

It’s that time of year again when you see the plump, orange gourds nearly everywhere — jack-o’-lanterns on front porches, in pies and lattes and even in haunted houses.

But how did the humble pumpkin become the belle of the autumn ball?

Back to its roots

An American flag sits atop a mountain of pumpkins and straw bales in Solvang, California.

(George Rose / Getty Images)

The story of the pumpkin began in North America, where the vegetable was first cultivated thousands of years ago. For much of that time (and still to this day for many cultures), the pumpkin was largely cooked in savory dishes.

When English colonists arrived in North America and were introduced to the pumpkin in the 17th century, they too began using the vegetable, but not as the novelty item as we see it today.

“It was a food of last resort,” said Cindy Ott, Professor of History and Museum Studies at the University of Delaware and author of ‘Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon.’

Dave Bengston readis his pumpkin farm for the start of the season in Homer Glen, Illinois, in September 2006.

Dave Bengston readies his pumpkin farm for the start of the season in Homer Glen, Illinois, in September 2006.

(Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images / Getty Images)

“When [colonial farmers] couldn’t manage to produce wheat or cabbage or any of the foods that they were used to having, they could often substitute the very prolific pumpkin because it grew like a weed,” she added.

Essentially, the pumpkin became associated with an old-fashioned way of making a living off the land.

Ripening popularity

Grandpa Fairbrother and his grandchildren Edith and George gather pumpkins in a field.

(Minnesota Historical Society / Corbis / Getty Images)

Fast-forward to the 19th century, when the country experienced a big expansion of industrial agriculture. With more access to a greater variety of produce, Americans no longer needed to rely on pumpkins for food.

This shift to industrial agriculture also reduced the need for people to grow their own food, so many people left their farms and moved to the cities. However, this shift from an agrarian lifestyle proved to have an interesting effect on many people – they began to feel nostalgic about farm life.

A farmer sits on his porch on an autumn day.

(H. Armstrong Roberts / Classicstock / Getty Images)

“Many Americans like to imagine themselves as farmers at heart — the values it represents, that you’re toiling in the soil, working in nature and hard work, and it creates a sense of independence,” Ott said.

So, the pumpkin, the hearty vegetable that was once eaten out of necessity, became celebrated as it connected urbanized Americans to the agrarian lifestyle they wanted to hold onto.