Posted on 01/02/2009 6:39:09 AM PST by Daffynition
Chinese artist Ju Duoqi, 35, has done veggie versions of legendary works by masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.
She cooked up Mona Lisa with tofu and fashioned Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe from cabbage.
Ju uses boiled, dried or pickled veg, finishing with the fastest-rotting ingredients.
Her art has fetched £1,000. She said: “Wood just doesn’t look right.”
Taste ... Picasso’s The Dream in tofu
Little gem ... the veggie Birth of Venus
Spuddy marvellous ... Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading The People in a sweet potato
Patch on original ... artist used cabbage and garlic for Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe
Wok ’n’ roll ... da Vinci’s Mona Lisa recreated from stir fry favourite tofu
Meet Vegetable van Gogh ... Ju’s version of Vincent’s self-portrait using cucumber and carrot
Well, he is very talented!!! I like the Van Gogh!
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The Van Gogh is the BEST! Because the dominant vegetable used, (NOT cuke or carrot) which looks like chives or green onion stalks, so perfectly matches VG’s brushstrokes ————it was a stroke of luck to find something that appropriate. Nothing else comes close./
I like to look at art but these make me think I should make a New Year’s resolution to diet. ;)
I agree, but I must confess that Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists.
Do the paintings come with veggie dip?
Can I share a secret???? If I could accomplish one artistic thing in my life, it would be painting like Van Gogh. I don’t have a single artistic bone in my body, but I sure have the desire.
Some tasteful art for a change.
Those are impressive looking. I thought it would be like most modern “art” and look like crap.
Um, she used a “male” vegetable for the Birth of Venus.
The Van Gogh is good. Most of the other ones suck. JMHO.
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