The hunting scenes represented by some of the prominent painters (mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries) can evoke paradoxical feelings in the audiences. On one hand, the brilliant combination of colors, gestures, figures, and anatomies undoubtedly can cause us to admire the aesthetical aspects of painting. On the other hand, a scene full of hunted animals that are hanged or abandoned on the ground can morally challenge the cited pleasant feelings.
Especially in two paintings created by Jan Weenix and Melchior d'Hondecoeter (The well-known artists of the 18th century and 17th century respectively), this paradoxical combination reaches a high point. The admirable pieces of art in which the controversy between a brutal scene and aesthetical pleasure leads us to contemplate deeply. It can be said that both contain two horizontal layers which represent totally different scenes. In the lower sectors, brutally hunted animals are stacked and combined with each other, and upper layers are noticeably alive picturing very dynamic sceneries with live animals and even birds flying in the sky.
The mentioned paradoxical feeling can be inspiring in the case of some vegetarian-based products. An everyday good that leads us to think about what we consume and the world around us. The concept used in a product called: semi-vegetarian sausage is a hybrid package of sausages consisting of mostly vegetarian sausages and a non-vegetarian one. Let us picture it with the cited paintings: The lower part of the hunted animal for animal-based sausage and the upper part of a dynamic scenery for the vegetarian one. A packaging that can effectively help us, as those omnivores who don’t want to totally eliminate animal-based food, to at least reduce the share of it in our diet. Moreover, it also can be implemented for vegan people who have pets to feed them such as a cat or dog. eventually, it can be pointed out that this is a hybrid and intermediate product that leads us to think about art, the world, and animals..
Right:
A Hunter’s Bag on a Terrace By Melchior d'Hondecoeter, c. 1678
Left:
Hunting and Fruit Still Life next to a Garden Vase, with a Monkey, Dog and two Doves, in the distance Rijksdorp near Wassenaar, Seat of Jacob Emmery, Baron of Wassenaar By Jan Weenix, 1714
