Anyone who comes to Bourg will have chicken. They are beautiful white chickens with blue feet and a red comb, so bleu, blanc, rouge - the color of the French flag. Here are excerpts from that conversation, edited in parts for clarity and length.īeing born in Bourg-en-Bresse, for me the Bresse chickens are considered one of the greatest chickens in France.
Jacques Pépin spoke about his long career and his art with NPR's Scott Simon. His new book is called Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird. Pépin has authored more than 30 cookbooks and spent his career showing millions of Americans how good food can both nourish and spice up our lives. He has cooked with Julia Child and for former French president Charles de Gaulle. Now 86 years old, Jacques Pépin has a Lifetime Emmy award for his various television projects, 16 James Beard Awards, and France's Legion of Honor. With his paintbrush, the fowl become expressive and colorful - sometimes they look like majestic birds and sometimes they look like pineapples. In the kitchen, he can transform scrambled eggs into a dinner party for 50 - or a simple, delicious meal for one. As an artist, I marvel at the iridescent colors and varied beauty of its plumage," Pépin writes. "As a chef, I stand in awe of the humble bird's contributions to world cuisine. Pépin, who has been cooking since he was 13, says no ingredient brings him more joy than chicken. Proportion: How things fit together and relate to each other in terms of size and scale whether big or small, nearby or distant."Proust had his madeleine, I have chicken," writes Jacques Pépin at the start of his new memoir.Pattern: A regular repetition of lines, shapes, colors, or values in a composition.Contrast: Paintings with high contrast-strong differences between light and dark, for example-have a different feel than paintings with minimal contrast in light and dark, such as in Whistler Nocturne series. In addition to light and dark, contrast can be differences in shape, color, size, texture, type of line, etc.Focus (or Emphasis): The viewer's eye ultimately wants to rest on the "most important" thing or focal point in the painting, otherwise the eye feels lost, wandering around in space.Look for the large underlying shapes (squares, triangles, etc.) and repeated color. Rhythm: In much the same way music does, a piece of art can have a rhythm or underlying beat that leads your eye to view the artwork at a certain pace.Leading lines can be actual lines, such as the lines of a fence or railroad, or they can be implied lines, such as a row of trees or curve of stones or circles. Movement: There are many ways to give a sense of movement in a painting, such as the arrangement of objects, the position of figures, the flow of a river. You can use leading lines (a photography term applicable to painting) to direct the viewer's eye into and around the painting.A painting that is not balanced creates a sense of unease. Balance: Balance is the sense that the painting "feels right" and not heavier on one side. Having a symmetrical arrangement adds a sense of calm, whereas an asymmetrical arrangement creates a more dynamic feeling.Unity: Do all the parts of the composition feel as if they belong together, or does something feel stuck on, awkwardly out of place?.
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