Jason Mercier is a mosaic artist who makes portraits out of
unexpected things, such as food. Some of the portraits he’s done are of Rachel
Ray, and Jerry Seinfeld. He used potato chips, beans, candy, cookies, hamburger
buns, and a bunch of other stuff to make these portraits. To see the pictures go here: http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/
The next
artist is a French Sculptor named Christel Assante. Christel takes egg shells
and delicately sculpts pictures into them. It takes her about 3 to 4 days to
finish an egg project and she mainly uses quail or goose eggs. When she’s done
she puts a bulb into the egg through a hole in the bottom, to illuminate the sculpture.
Jim Victor is a creative artist who likes to use butter as a
medium. He sculpts life-size cows, children, and horses out of huge mounds of
butter in refrigerators. He also makes sculptures out of cheese, vegetables,
bronze, and wood.
Carl
Warner is an artist who uses food to make sceneries and landscapes. Before he
actually makes the scenes he sketches out his ideas. When he makes the real
scenery he uses super glue and pins to hold his creation together. In these
sceneries he might use broccoli for the trees, cabbage for the sea, or bread
for a mountain. This guy has an amazing imagination! To see his creations go
here: http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/
Going
back to Renaissance time, Giuseppe Arcimboldo may have been the first artist who
used food as inspiration. He didn’t actually use the food itself; instead he
just painted mosaics that looked like they were made of food. His food portraits
have inspired other food artists as well.
There’s
a bakery called Zhanna in Russia that makes cakes that look like inedible
objects. You would never guess that it’s cake. They’ve made cakes that look
like treasure chests, sewing machines, and cans of pop that look extremely realistic!
Dieter Roth is an artist who experimented with many
different objects including food. This took place while he worked as a
professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1965. He would make his art
out of food and wait for it to mold and decay to see how it would look. You can
view his creations by clicking here: http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/
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