European painting, Miranda, "Forbidden fruit" 1988, oil on fabric. In the lower right corner, the signature of the artist Miranda and the date 88. Picture in a frame. Forbidden fruit is a name given to the growing fruit in the Garden of Eden which God commands mankind not to eat. In the biblical story, Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and are exiled from Eden. European painting of the 20th century.