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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Extraordinary Produce Section

Not all vegetable arrangements are found at grocery stores and county fairs. Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter who had his heyday in the mid-1500s, and to the best of my knowledge he never worked the checkout at Trader Joe's. Arcimboldo is most famous for a visual gimmick that should be called "artistic salad", or maybe "ratatouille du musée". Observe:



The man did not restrict himself to a vegetarian palette:

optical illusion portrait, face made out of birds

And so on. Read more about the artist here. Images from Wikimedia: 1 & 2.

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