Focus on The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez) and discuss the abstract.
The Afternoon Meal (in Spanish, La Merienda) is a mid-eighteenth-century still life painting by Spanish painter Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780).It was created around 1772. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts an assortment of fruits and bread set before a stark background. 
The painting is a straight-sided ogee frame with sculpted Rococo corners and shallow-relief details, collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Luis Egidio Meléndez shallow-relief ogee Metropolitan Museum of Art Rococo