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Monday, August 25, 2014

From The Canvas To The Kitchen

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
 Vertumnus
 1591









The Godfather of Tomfoodery


This is his oil painting











The website is "watermarked"

Twenty-one generations later...



We have a cute confectionary concoction


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One image makes me hungry  while the other image
makes me want to correctly pronounce: trompe l'oeil.


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Footnote
Anyone who has ever referred to the 16th Century artist Arcimboldo
as the ancestral Godfather of Surrealism
knew what they were talking about.


Arcimboldo  
The Librarian








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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 26, 2014 at 11:56 AM


    Trompe l'oeil means to fool the eye
    in the sense that perhaps item is real,
    not painted.

    I wonder if this counts as a double tl'o.
    But isn't the cupcake a real Martian?

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    1. Paul OliverioAugust 26, 2014 at 12:00 PM

      Not to the cupcake maker...
      unless it expedites marketing
      of product.

      I truly like the trompe l'oeil abbreviation: tl'o.

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