Happy Thanksgiving! Across the United States, friends and families alike will be gathering together today over a traditional turkey dinner. It is a time of indulgence, historically in celebration of bountiful harvests. John Currin captures the spirit of the day with his painting Thanksgiving, complete with a large, rather nude turkey in the foreground. Decadent bunches of grapes and onions litter the table, while one woman spoon-feeds another. Like many of Currin’s paintings, it achieves a delicate balance between Old-Master elegance and contemporary kitsch, while an abundance of food is similarly a regular motif of his work. Feast your eyes.
