Giuseppe Arcimboldo Paintings
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Portraits with Fruits and Vegetables
Giuseppe Arcimboldo paintings are easily recognizable by their sheer uniqueness. This 16th century Italian painter painted individual objects like fruits, vegetables, fish, flowers, and books to create life-like portraits.
I recently visited the Philip Haas art exhibit on display at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Haas has created very large sculptures of the four seasons--Spring is show here--based on Giuseppe Arcimboldo's paintings.
These three-dimensional works of art bring the wonderful paintings to life.
The Haas exhibit was on display at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden in April 2013. Each sculpture is 15 feet tall. These works of art are stunning against the backdrop of the blue desert sky and cactus and other plants.
Photo Credit: Peggy Hazelwood
The Life of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born in 1527 in Milan, Italy. He first made stained glass window designs and cathedral frescoes.
He worked as a court portraitist
in Vienna and Prague.
Later in life his self portrait was depicted in
The Four Seasons (shown on this page).
Arcimboldo died in 1593.
Source: Guiseppe Arcimboldo biography
~*~ Summer ~*~ Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Summer by Philip Haas Based on the Portrait by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
~*~*~ Autumn ~*~*~ Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Autumn Sculpture by Philip Haas Based on the Autumn Painting by Giuseppe Arcimbolo
~*~*~ Winter ~*~*~ Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Winter Sculpture by Philip Haas Based on the Winter Portrait by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Influence of Arcimboldo on Artists
Arcimboldo's work influenced these artists:
Shigeo Fukuda, Istvan Orosz, Octavio Ocampo, and Sandro del Prete, and filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
