This vegetable face composite image was created by Klaus Enrique for the cover a cookbook by Martin Pyco Rausch.  The cookbook features vegetarian recipes making the half-vegetable face even more relevant for this project.  The style used in this strange face mash up was clearly inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the 16th century Italian painter best […]

In the 16th century, an Italian painter named Giuseppe Arcimboldo was on the cutting edge of his craft as he painted composite portraits of people using a variety of objects.  Some of his most famous paintings involved creating portraits out of fruits and vegetables.  In his painting below, he uses books to represent the head […]