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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 in Milan, Italy - 1593)
was a distinctive and eccentric painter who is best known for creating
portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruit or vegetables
or flowers, or fish, or inanimate objects such as books -- that
is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged
in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable
likeness of the portrait subject.
In 1562 he became the court portraitist to Maximilian
II at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to his son Rudolf
II, both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary
portraits.
He was also the court decorator, costume designer,
and general art expert. His style of early pre-surrealist portraiture
was much copied by his contemporaries, making it difficult at times
to differentiate his work from that of imitators.
His paintings are in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches
Museum and in the Habsburg Schloss Amras in Innsbruck. In Italy,
his work is in Cremona, Brescia, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, also contains pieces
of his work.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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