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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

(via Wiki) Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

I liked The Arcimboldo Effect because they have double meaning + that otherness.

Useful links:
www.nhm-wien.ac.at
www.kunsthistorischesmuseum.at
www.palazzograssi.it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2276324,00.html

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