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"Spring," Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563.
Arcimboldo (1527-93) is an Italian Mannerist painter best known for his surreal still lifes that form faces. These are felt today to be mostly novelties meant to amuse, but they're the work that has survived.
Very little of his more conventional work has been found, and most of it is, well, very conventional. Unremarkable, even. He saved all his creative energy for things like this.
Honestly, I'd like to give him credit for being a surrealist before surrealism was a thing. Here we have Spring, a woman made up completely of flowers and leaves, with lips of rose petals. What could be more appropriate?
It seems more suited for Flower Friday than Portrait Monday, but heck, it's a portrait of a season, isn't it?
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
#Art #Mannerism #GiuseppeArcimboldo #PortraitMonday #ProtoSurrealism #Spring
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"Winter," Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563.
Arcimboldo (1527-93) was a visionary who foretold the rise of Surrealism centuries later. His portrait still lifes are popular and admired today.
As far as can be known from records, he regarded these paintings only as novelties and entertainments, but they're also the only work of his that has had any impact. What is known of his conventional work is bland and dull compared to these, and much has been lost or forgotten.
Here we have Winter as a gnarled tree trunk, with a beard made up of roots, hair of ivy, wrapped in a plain straw mat, with citrus fruits (the only winter fruit in Italy) sprouting from his chest. A good representation of winter.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
#Art #Surrealism #GiuseppeArcimboldo #Winter #PortraitMonday
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"Autumn," Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573.
Arcimboldo (1527-93) was technically a Mannerist painter, but heck, I'd call him a Proto-Surrealist.
Born into an artistic family, he was designing stained glass and murals when he was 21. (I can kind of see the connections between works like this and stained glass...both assembling parts to make a greater whole...) He did a lot of conventional portraits and other works that have fallen into obscurity; some folks may have an Arcimboldo in their collections and not know it, because it's too...well....normal.
These composite, still-life portraits were celebrated in their day for their inventiveness. Some wonder if he was mentally, or just whimsical, but many feel he was making social commentaries with some of these works.
After his death, he was largely forgotten until the 19th century, and in the 20th the Surrealists idolized him. Now he's celebrated for his imagination and inventiveness. Only about 20 of his works are known to survive, but there may be more out there waiting to be discovered.
Mondays are usually when I feature portraits....I've done portraits of animals, why not a portrait of a season?
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Louvre, Paris.
#Art #Surrealism #GiuseppeArcimboldo #Autumn #PortraitMonday
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AI drawing of "Painting of laMDA artifical intelligence, deep in thought, considering the future by Giuseppe Arcimboldo"
#GiuseppeArcimboldo #painting #AIArt #DigitalArt #StableDiffusion2 #ExperimentalExtra
context: https://imgur.com/gallery/LXZo3mf/comment/2286561545
