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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Fruit Art: Then & Now

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Arcimboldo (1527–1593)






















Arkie McBlueJacket (????-????)









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4 comments:

  1. It has been said that
    Giuseppe Arcimboldo was the first Surrealist.

    That statement may be as accurate
    as it is profound.

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    1. I agree with the statement but would add one word:
      Giuseppe Arcimboldo was the first Surrealist painter .
      The 16th Century Italian needed only two dimensions
      to create his art.

      His 21st Century protege did a commendable job
      with three dimensions and a set of carving knives.

      Arkie McBlue gets extra credit
      for streamlining the image.

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  2. Perhaps M. Arcimbaldo was hungry one day and in the market, a peasant farmer had applied a fig nose to a cabbage thus planting a seed.

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    1. Was the peasant farmer Mr. Barnum or Mr. Bailey?

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