Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty
The Burrito
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202209055
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
Around 10,000 B.C., a corn tortilla food wrap became a common dinner in Mesoamerica. For thousands of years and countless generations, the recipe was passed on and evolved. The Pueblo Native American of southwestern United States and northern Mexico ate it as a staple meal. Cowboys roaming California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Guanajuato found it to be an easy meal to eat while rounding up cattle. There's a couple legends where the name "burrito" came from. One says it's because a street vendor in Ciudad JuΓ‘rez named Juan MΓ©ndez sold the meal while riding a donkey. Another claims it came from a term of endearment used by a man selling lunches to poor school children. Today, the burrito is served in an infinite amount of restaurants in a myriad of varieties. Yet another example of how food shows we have more in common than we have in differences.
Alrededor de 10.000 aC, una envoltura de tortilla de maΓz se convirtiΓ³ en una cena comΓΊn en MesoamΓ©rica. Durante miles de aΓ±os e innumerables generaciones, la receta se transmitiΓ³ y evolucionΓ³. El pueblo nativo americano del suroeste de los Estados Unidos y el norte de MΓ©xico lo comiΓ³ como una comida bΓ‘sica. Los vaqueros que vagaban por California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Nuevo MΓ©xico, Colorado, Texas y Guanajuato consideraron que era una comida fΓ‘cil de comer mientras redondeaban el ganado. Hay un par de leyendas de donde vino el nombre "burrito". Uno dice que es porque un vendedor ambulante en Ciudad JuΓ‘rez llamado Juan MΓ©ndez vendiΓ³ la comida mientras montaba un burro. Otro afirma que proviene de un tΓ©rmino de cariΓ±o usado por un hombre que vende almuerzos a niΓ±os de escuelas pobres. Hoy en dΓa, el burrito se sirve en una cantidad infinita de restaurantes en una gran variedad de variedades. Otro ejemplo mΓ‘s de cΓ³mo la comida muestra que tenemos mΓ‘s en comΓΊn que diferencias.
This piece would work best is a small-to-medium space that is orange, green, blue, purple, black, white, grey, or light wood.
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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.
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