Giuseppe arcimboldo for kids
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Have you heard of Giuseppe Arcimboldo? That is a funny name, right?
Giuseppe arcimboldo for kids worksheet
He was born in Milan Italy, in He is most famous for his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, fruit, flowers, and all sorts of other things.
Show Bowl of Vegetables/ The Gardener
What do you see? (Turn upside-down) Now what do you see?
Pretty cool huh?
Look at some of his other paintings. What do you notice?
Giuseppe arcimboldo for kids
The entire faces are made of things like fruit, vegetables, flowers, kitchen items, and even sea creatures! Look closely at the faces. What do you see? Can you name ten different things Giuseppe used to make the faces?
Today, art scholars debate whether or not Arcimboldo painted these for fun, or if he was kind of crazy.
Which do you think it was?
Today, you get to paint a face made out of fruits & veggies like Arcimboldo.
What I would suggest is that you first make some sketches on paper to figure out how you want to put the face together, then draw it on th