Pizza Masterpiece

Occasionally, the gas station down the street is also home to random vendors who sell random things that I would never randomly buy, like giant stuffed tigers, cheap sunglasses, Bluetooth ear pieces or–as it was this past weekend–cheap art. $8 for two 8 x 10 paintings that aren’t really paintings but prints on textured canvases? OKAY!

I was really puzzled by this one painting, though. I mean, I understood the Marilyn Monroe portraits, the floral bouquets and even The Last Supper but what’s up with this painting of a pizza?  Do people really want pictures of food hanging on their walls? Like, do they look at their dinner and think, “Man, this would look perfect right above the bed” or something? Maybe this was meant for some Italian restaurant looking for cheap decor. Nothing says a good Italian dinner than a painting of a pizza to convince your customers to eat there. Like, hey, we’re so authentically Italian that we even hang paintings of Italian food on the walls! It was weird enough that I contemplated buying it (I’d get The Last Supper for the 2-for-1 deal) until I realized that tomato pizza didn’t really go with our living room theme (which is just “living room”).