What is art? Is art just art in the traditional sense of the word, a simple watercolor painting and nothing else? Is art more akin to the performing arts, such as dance or music? Or is art more diverse than that? To me, art is anything that is created for the sensory or emotional pleasure of beings. Art is the visual pleasure one attains from seeing a Picasso. Art is the audible pleasure one gets from listening to Mozart. Art is even the tastable pleasure of eating a succulent dish, or the inner warmth one gets from eating comfort food.
In this sense, a chef is truly an artist. Sure, we can go on our entire lives eating bland food that gives us just enough to survive, but chefs believe that there should be more than that, that we should enjoy taste as much as we enjoy any of the other four senses. Just like famous painters and muralists, chefs can create masterpiece dishes that invoke emotions that one has never felt before. And just like any other art, chefs are constantly creating new styles of cuisine, new cooking techniques, and even entirely new foods and flavors, so that they can express their form of art in their own unique ways. As such, when talking about artists, chefs should definitely be thought of and included amongst the group.
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