Food art glorious food art!
Food and art are some of our favourite things here at PopUp Painting! Here our some of our favourite pieces of art which are either made of food or depict food. You’ll be raiding the fridge by the end of it…
1. Veggie Heart Collage by Julie’s Kitchen
Julie Lee creates these beautifully patterned collages using fruit, vegetables and other natural materials.
3. Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Arcimboldo was a 16th century Italian painter who painted portraits made of objects
4. Sunflower Seed Portrait by @redhongyi
Hongyi creates art using unexpected materials, like this portrait made entirely of sunflower seeds
5. Zesty Mower by @bigappetitesstudio
Christopher Boffoli photographs tiny humorous figures interacting with real food
6. I love you with my Ford by James Rosenquist
Rosenquist was an American pop artist who used food to look at the consumerist society of the 1960s
7. Cakes by Wayne Thiebaud
Thiebaud used bold colours and defined shadows to make his paintings look more like advertisements
8. Food art by @culinary_canvas
Lauren Purnell created Culinary Canvas to combine her love of art and healthy food
9. Fried Egg painting by Tjalf Sparnaay
This Dutch artist has been instrumental in the Hyperrealist art movement
11. Double Mona Lisa (Peanut + Jelly) by Vik Muniz
The contemporary artist Muniz made this version of Andy Warhol’s Mona Lisa print from peanut butter and jam
13. Hyper-realistic food paintings by Luigi Benedicenti
Benedicenti is an Italain Hyperrealist painter who mostly paints sweets and pastries
14. Rorschach Food by Esther Lobo
Lobo’s food series titled Rorschach was inspired by the psychological Rorschach tests which are usually made from ink
15. El Banquete by Martin Satí
Satí aand his students used fruit, vegetables and small glasses to create this portrait of Michael Jackson
