Artists You Should Know: Giuseppe Arcimboldo

My friends JoAnn and Katie Amber suggested this week's profile. If you don't have the pleasure of knowing JoAnn, she's "scary" smart (a mechanical engineer and physics professor) and so left-brained that she makes Mr. Spock look like a giddy, empty-headed schoolgirl. So I had to ask...well, to be honest, first I asked "You like an artist?"...had to ask: why Arcimboldo? "Subject matter", said JoAnn. "Interesting choices and construction. K and I enjoy analyzing his work, and question what led him to fruit."

So there you have it: Arcimboldo is an artist for the analytical mind, as well as those of us who think his portraits are just loads of fun. Besides that, any artist who had the courage to construct an Emperor's neck out of an eggplant gets my vote as "worth knowing", any day. Thanks Jo and Katie!

Today in Art History:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist painter), born in 1841.