OSCAR VILLALÓN

     "The popular appreciation of realism in the bodegon is related to the ancient Greek legend of Zeuxis and Parrasio, who are said to have competed to create the objects most similar to reality, being these the oldest descriptions of the history of the painting of the trompe l'oeil. [4] As Pliny the Elder recounted in Roman times, the Greek artists of centuries before were already very skilled in portraiture and bodegon.Distinguished Peiraikos, whose masters very few surpass ... He painted tents for shoemakers and barbershops , asses, plants and similar things, and for that reason they called him the "painter of vulgar objects", even though these works were altogether delicious, and were sold at higher prices than the largest [paintings] of many other artists"