Martin Jordan
artist
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Illusory Portraits
Since youth, I’ve been fascinated by the paintings of the 16th century Italian Giuseppe Arcimboldo who made portraits of people using unrelated objects for the composition - a person’s nose might be a pear or a twig, eyes could be blackberries or cherries, hair might be bunches of grapes or the pages of an open book, and so on. My own version of illusory portraits is different in style but inspired by Arcimboldo’s work. I paint them for my own collection and occasionally to commission. The one below left is Edward Goldsmith environmental prophet and founder of The Ecologist magazine
Since youth, I’ve been fascinated by the paintings of the 16th century Italian Giuseppe Arcimboldo who made portraits of people using unrelated objects for the composition -
