Giuseppe ARCIMBOLDO - Summer (1573)

 

Summer
1573
Oil painting on canvas (76x63,5 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

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A greengrocer's dream is what this painting might look like.

The bizarre portraits of Arcimboldo are his distinctive trait and which make it very easy to recognize the painter's signature. Not only food but also commonly used objects.

Arcimboldo's pictorial activity developed between Austria and Prague at the court of the Habsburgs.

Eclectic painter who does not spend his life working in front of a canvas, at the Hapsburg court he worked as a decorator for the holidays, as an expert buyer for the imperial collections and designed water systems.

For a long time Arcimboldo's painting was underestimated and regarded with disdain. It will take centuries for it to be re-evaluated, Surrealism must be awaited, of course.

Underestimated and poorly considered but much copied and plagiarized even in his own era.

Comparing artists: Dalí, De Heem, Koons, Magritte