Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts
Friday, October 4, 2019
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Inspired by Arcimboldo's vegetable Portraits
You can imagine the comments I heard when students entered the art room and saw THIS on the board. We made a lot of observations and guesses about this piece. Here are a few:
It's a portrait, it's made of vegetables, it's a painting, it looks like it was painted a long time ago, the ear is an ear of corn, it looks like it is someone specific, there's a lot of detail, it is colorful, it's funny, the vegetables look real even though the face does not....
The job of a renaissance court portraitist was to produce likenesses of his sovereigns to display at the palace and give to foreign dignitaries or prospective brides. It went without saying the portraits should be flattering. Yet, in 1590, Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted his royal patron, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, as a heap of fruits and vegetables (opposite). With pea pod eyelids and a gourd for a forehead, he looks less like a king than a crudité platter.
Lucky for Arcimboldo, Rudolf had a sense of humor. And he had probably grown accustomed to the artist’s visual wit. Arcimboldo served the Hapsburg family for more than 25 years, creating oddball “composite heads” made of sea creatures, flowers, dinner roasts and other materials. from www.smithsonianmag.com
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Inspired by Miroco Machiko
Thank you to Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists for the introduction to Miroco Machiko. I love her bold, stylized artwork. The students can really relate to her sense of design and colorful images. We looked at her picture of vegetables, then used crayon and watercolor resist to create fruit and vegetable pictures.
Here is artwork inspired by Miroco Machiko by first and second graders. This is the piece of artwork that artists in grades one and two will use for their Original Works fundraiser.
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