Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Arcimboldo, born in 1527, was an Italian painter who created portraits made from objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers and fish. He arranged the objects in such a way that a person's face was recognisable, so you could say he made chimeras of people and objects. I think his work was very unusual and progressive; he was ahead of his time.

Examples of his work -

                             Whimsical Portrait                                    

 Vortumnus (Vertumno)

The Water (1564)

The Librarian (1566)

Water is life typography poster

Dublin keytones- class project

As a class we took macro shots around Dublin and put them together to represent Dublin in keytones.

My first chimera attempt

Messing about with photoshop - angry apple