Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter born between 1526 and 1527 who was known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects like fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. Some of his most famous paintings included his Four Seasons series depicting Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn as human heads made of objects symbolic of each season, as well as his painting Vertumno. The document encourages readers to create their own collage portrait in Arcimboldo's style using only food items.
2. • He was born in 1526 or 1527 and died in
1593.
• He was from Italy.
• He was a painter known for creating
imaginative portrait heads made of objects
as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and
books.
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Make a collage in the Arcimboldo’s style.
Use only food for it.
Cut the pictures out.
Stick the pictures on a piece of drawing paper.
Colour the back ground of your collage.
Write about your creation at the back of the
paper.
