Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit: ... a good-sized, light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth (Orthosia hibisci). Beneath it is a single bicolored apple, shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective recognized that these men are more so victims of their culture than they are of the queer standard (Tayeb: 129). They catered to the struggle of being ethnic and queer. Strange Fruit took on a creative approach and used a variety of mediums to convey their key messages and forms of support. An example being when the Strange Fruit Machine became involved in the 1996 Feminist Dansen op de Denkvloer Conference. They carried out a poetry poster project (Tayeb:134) where lesbians of colour across the world (including women within Strange Fruit) created one hundred posters with poetry expressing the struggle