Icebreaker, 3D self-portrait

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 My inspiration to 3D self portrait was Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 - 1593) who was famous for painting compositions of fruits, vegetables, books and other objects arrange to relate human portraits.  At the beginning of his career Arcimboldo worked as a  cartoon designer of stained glass windows for the Milan Cathedral, then in Prague he was court painter and theatre decoration designer. He was famous from his illusionistic trickery and his paintings were full of allegorical meanings and jokes.

Arcimboldo's portraits made up from vegetables, fruits and roots were loved by everyone. Back then it was something extraordinary and people always wonder  if it was something  bizarre and whimsical or something painted by madman. However at the same time his paintings were very cleaver far from painted by someone who is mentally imbalanced.

At the end of his career he created portrait of Rudolph II and his self - portrait "Four Seasons on One Head". Arcimboldo often named his paintings as a seasons, which was related to the fruits and vegetables that he painted 

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Four Seasons, 1575
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Four Seasons in One Head 1590
 
When Sam introduced the Icebreaker on the first Art Portfolio lesson, he said we can create 3D self portrait by using whatever we want or found in studio or at home. My first thought was to use vegetables as I remembered  famous Giuseppe Arcimboldo's paintings. 
That is what I created at home.

To create my self -portrait I used products which I found in my kitchen. Green beans symbolise my straight hair and I used red raspberries to create lips. I cut  mushroom in a half to create nose and the black part of the mushroom was perfect to define nostrils. I was looking for some vegetable which colour  would be close to my skin tone and I chose potatoes, its on my cheeks, beard and on the forehead. The apple cut in a half and its skin are my eyes because the colour is contains red, same as my eyes after writing posts on blog. Pupils are made of almonds because they are brown, same as my eyes. I also used white rice to fill up the face and fried onion to define shades and a tiny brown dot on my chick is a allspice. 






National Gallery of Art (ND) Four Seasons in One Head, available from https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.142008.html, Accessed on 06.04.22

Encyclopaedia Britannica (ND) Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter, Available from: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Arcimboldo, Accessed on 06.04.22

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan9 April 2022 at 15:33

    Very interesting outcome and a good link to your chosen artist. The research is also well written and shows evidence of your sources. Well done.

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