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| Giuseppe Arcimboldo Vertumnus 1591 |
The Godfather of Tomfoodery
This is his oil painting
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| 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.
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| Arcimboldo The Librarian |
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ReplyDeleteTrompe 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?
Not to the cupcake maker...
Deleteunless it expedites marketing
of product.
I truly like the trompe l'oeil abbreviation: tl'o.