Mr. Potato Head
(Accommodated)
Goal: You will create a 3-Dimensional subtractive sculpture of a proportional face.
Terms you will demonstrate understanding of:
Carving, Subtractive, proportion, scale, Renaissance, Modern
Artist reference:
 Tamás Balla- Modern
 Giuseppe Arcimboldo- Renaissance
You Will submit: ***2 paragraphs***
1. A paragraph comparison of the two artist's styles.
2. A Sketch of your original head design
3. A Potato sculptured head.
4. A summary paragraph explaining how you incorporated the rules of facial proportion
into your piece.
Hatian Creole:
Ou pral soumèt: *** 2 paragraf ***
1. Yon konparezon paragraf nan Styles atis la de la.
2. yon chema nan konsepsyon orijinal tèt ou
3. Yon pòmdetè estati tèt.
4. Yon rezime paragraf eksplike ki jan ou enkòpore règleman yo nan vizaj pwopòsyon nan moso ou.
Spanish:
Usted presentará: *** 2 párrafos ***
1. Una comparación de estilos de párrafo dos del artista.
2. A Sketch de su diseño original de la cabeza
3. Una Patata cabeza esculpida.
4. Un párrafo de resumen explicando cómo ha introducido las reglas de proporción facial en su pieza.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(images via: All-Art.org)
Time Period: Renaissance
The Renaissance is a french term for “Re-Birth” The ability to
publish helped to spread literature and ideas. Additionally, artists
such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo made their mark on the world
with their realist depictions. Linear perspective was created
during this time and art was focused on a realist approach.
With in this time period there were still artists who push the
envelope of what is considered normal.
Renaissance artist A Giuseppe rcimboldo was perhaps the
first artist to use food to create a mosaic image, though his
work was in paint, not made of food itself. This image,
‘Summer’, is part of a seasonal series and features a human
profile made up of fruits and vegetables. His work had a surreal
quality long before the advent of the Surrealist Art movement.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for
creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and
books - that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the
whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. Arcimboldo's conventional
work, on traditional religious subjects, has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of
vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures and tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain a
source of fascination today.
At a distance, his portraits looked like normal human portraits. However, individual objects in each portrait were
actually overlapped together to make various anatomical shapes of a human. They were carefully constructed by his
imagination. Besides, when he assembled objects in one portrait, he never used random objects. Each object
was related by characterization. In the portrait now represented by several copies called The Librarian,
Arcimboldo used objects that signified the book culture at that time, such as the curtain that created individual study
rooms in a library. The animal tails, which became the beard of the portrait, were used as dusters. By using
everyday objects, the portraits were decoration and still-life paintings at the same time. His works showed not only
nature and human beings, but also how closely they were related.
Summary
Spanish:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Arcimboldi también deletreado; 1527 - 11 de julio 1593) fue un pintor italiano más
conocido para crear las cabezas imaginativas del retrato hechas totalmente de los objetos tales como
frutas, verduras, flores, peces, y los libros - es decir, pintaba representaciones de éstos objetos en el lienzo
dispuestos de tal manera que toda la colección de objetos formó una semejanza reconocible del sujeto del
retrato. Trabajo convencional de Arcimboldo, sobre temas religiosos tradicionales, ha caído en el olvido,
pero sus retratos de cabezas humanas compuestas de verduras, plantas, frutas, criaturas del mar y raíces
de los árboles, se admirado por sus contemporáneos y siguen siendo una fuente de fascinación hoy. Su
obra utiliza objetos cotidianos que representaba la persona retratada.
Hatian Creole:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (tou eple Arcimboldi; 1527 - 11 Jiyè, 1593) se te yon pent Italyen pi byen konnen pou
kreye imajinè tèt pòtrè te fè antyèman nan objè tankou fwi, legim, flè, pwason, ak liv - ki se, li pentire
reprezantasyon nan sa yo objè sou twal la ranje nan yon fason ke koleksyon an antye nan objè ki te fòme
yon pòtre rekonètr nan sijè a pòtrè. Travay konvansyonèl Arcimboldo a, sou sijè relijye tradisyonèl yo, te
tonbe nan oubli, men pòtrè l 'nan tèt moun te fè leve nan legim, plant, fwi, bèt lanmè ak tout rasin pye bwa,
yo te anpil admire pa kontanporen l' epi yo rete yon sous pasyon jodi an. Travay atistik li itilize chak jou objè
ki reprezante moun nan ke yo te dekri.
Balla Tamas
(images via: BallaTamas)
This incredible artist animates food in ways you would never
imagine, transforming ordinary fruits and loaves of bread into
pieces and parts of strange stories, complete with offbeat
implications, curious perspectives and unique facial expressions.
Tamas is a photographer from Hungary who carves fruits and
vegetables and other objects into real life face characters.
Interview by Artful Vagabond: His images go beyond the medium
(materials) but, at the same time, the Hungarian artist relies on the
viewer’s recognition of the materials used in order to
understand the message he wants to convey. Many of the images
have underlying political messages, as in “Silence of the Lambs”,
above. “The title is named after the American movie,” says Tamas,
“but it actually refers to a specific Hungarian political situation, where the
former prime minister was spreading his own ideas, and the people were
quietly listening to it, like lambs.” Some of the images simply make the
viewer smile, but all of the work incorporates Tamás’ wit and humor
as he uses food and creative word-play to make his audience smile
Summary:
Spanish:
Sus imágenes van más allá del medio (materiales), pero, al mismo tiempo, el artista húngaro se
basa en el reconocimiento del espectador de los materiales utilizados con el fin de
comprender el mensaje que quiere transmitir.
Hatian Creole:
Imaj li ale pi lwen pase mwayen an (materyèl), men, an menm tan an, atis la Ongwa rpoz sou
rekonesans visualiseur a nan materyèl yo te itilize nan lòd yo konprann mesaj la li vle transmèt.
Potato Head sculpture
Detail
3 Excelled
Scale/Proportion
The proportions are in line
with the original design. If
scale/proportion is
distorted it was done
intentionally.
Composition/Balance
Overall composition takes
into consideration the form
and color as it relates to the
viewer to create an
appealing piece.
Piece relates directly to the
reference infused with their
own artistic style.
Construction is sound and
adds to the overall
appearance. Student was
able to express their
intended design.
Completion of project was
on time and class time was
used appropriately. Any
alterations from specified
due dates were approved
for specified reasons.
Student persevered on
piece with no support
needed from teacher to
stay motivated.
Relevance
Construction/
manipulation
Timeliness
Perseverance
Comments:
Points Earned:
GRADE:
2 Met expectation
1 Below expectation
0 NOT
SUBMITTED
The proportions are in line
with the original design. If
scale/proportion is distorted
it was done intentionally with
errors that do not distract
from the intended
appearance.
Overall composition and
balance are taken into
consideration with
The proportions are not in
line with the original design.
If scale/proportion is
distorted it was done
intentionally.
Project not completed.
Overall composition and
balance detract from the
overall piece.
Project not completed.
Piece relates to the reference
with no personal artistic style
infused.
Construction is complete with
only minor errors that do not
significantly detract from the
ending composition.
Piece moderately relates to
the original artist’s style.
Project not completed.
Construction concerns that
detract from the ending
composition.
Construction was not
completed.
Completion date was met,
but class time was not used
appropriately.
Completion of project was
achieved.
Project was not
completed.
Student persevered with
minimal motivational support
needed.
Student required
considerable motivational
support to stay on task.
Student did not
complete project.