Italiano
One of the most eccentric artists of the sixteenth century was certainly the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Arcimboldo was famous for his caricature portraits in which faces of men and women were depicted through a collage of objects that were somehow linked to the subject.
To give an example, below you see “The Cook“, at the same time the “still life” of roasted meats poured on a plate and, if you turn the painting upside down, the “grotesque” portrait of a human face (due to the “pareidolia” , the instinctive tendency to find familiar shapes in blurred images).
Anyway: if you want to see “The Cook“, you have to go to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
If you want to become a cook yourself, I can provide you with the right equipment.
