Arcimboldo
Plasticity
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a 16th-century painter, started as a fairly traditional and well-respected painter of dignitaries and sceneries. At some point in his career, he abandoned tradition and started to represent the people he was painting with a collection of other objects. These objects were mostly the ones you would expect to find in a still life, such as fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products.
Similar to Salvador Dali’s famous painting of Abraham Lincoln, close up to the painting you see the individual objects. At a certain distance, your brain connects these objects to the overall representation of the person portrayed. Interestingly, of the many paintings Arcimboldo produced throughout his life, only these ...
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