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Giuseppe
Arcimboldo The Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, about 1590
Among the
services Arcimboldo performed for the Court included the task of
producing an endless series of portraits for the imperial family and
other heads of state.
Giuseppe began
to paint tongue-in-cheek portraits of people with rendered clumps of
mammals, fish, vegetables and other natural objects. |
Above is a
painting from a series based on the four seasons. This one is called
Summer. In this portrait the gentleman's nose appears to be made out
of a ripe cucumber. Look closely at the man's coat. Can you see the
name of the artist woven into the collar of his jacket, and the date
1573 embroidered on the shoulder? |
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At
first glance, these images look like painted landscapes, however,
these aren’t paintings but true photos! Everything you can see in
the photograph is made of real food! Pictures were photographed by
Carl Warner, a photographer who works in London, and who made a
specialty of these food landscapes or ‘foodscapes‘.
To
see more go here:
carl-warners-food-landscapes |