weird art :: a 21rst century Arcimboldo

Contemporary French artist, Bernard Pras takes his cue from the brilliant 16th Century Italian painter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who was best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. Arcimboldo arranged them in such a way, that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the subject.

While the great Arcimboldo painted his compositions, the clever Pras uses photography and lithography, and is considered to be one of the most uncommon assemblage artists in the world today.

By anamorphosis, he creates a portrait in relief by piecing together randomly accumulated common objects and photographing it at just the right angle to capture the portrait subject. In the end the photograph is the only remaining trace of this clever collage.

Einstein

Medusa

Geisha

The Wave

Weird art - it's JUST COOL!

food :: a toast to art

Breakfast isn't breakfast anymore when Columbian Artist, Ximena Escobar gets her hands on it. Here she embroiders, paints and sews collages on whole wheat toast. The talented artist has been known to play with experiment with other food too, screen-printing with milk and dark chocolate over paper, bread, fabric and walls.

And fancy this tablecloth! It's sewn from used teabags!

Clever girl , that Ximena! And JUST COOL!

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art :: mixed media girls

Left handed London Graphic Artist NIKKI FARQUHARSON loves words and patterns and lots and lots of color.Her psychedelic ink collages called 'Mixed Media Girls' , scream 60's pop art style and are definitely JUST COOL!

art :: roses in poses

Sugary

If I haven't told you before, I'll tell you now - I am completely charmed by illustrator Juan Carlos Frederico's playful imagination. His digital collage illustrations are so full of life and quirkiness.

Dance Routine

And who cares if he is terrible at making his monsters look scary- they're just so cute that you want to take them home.

Check him out - his art is JUST COOL!