Picture This: Peach Cheeks, Blackberry Eyes and Cabbage Shoulders: The Strange and Curious Portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Picture This: Peach Cheeks, Blackberry Eyes and Cabbage Shoulders: The Strange and Curious Portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Kindergarten through 5^th grade

“Just in time for Halloween, we’ll take a look at the work of a painter who made faces out of fruit and create some equally weird ones of our own!”

· Read: If at First You Do Not See (Picture Book Brown)

· Hello, Fruit Face! : the Paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (J759.5 STR) created and shared powerpoint 

· Make people faces collages. Materials: (large paper, magazines pages and food ads, scissors, glue sticks, markers)

Resources: · Start with Art: People (J704.942 LAC) p. 26 Assemblage – faces from interesting objects, Hidden Pictures (J701.BOL) p.13 “The Animal Man”, compare with Surrealism – Linda Bolton (J709.04 BOL), “Fantastic Faces” My Art Book (DK) (J745.5 MY) p.22-27

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