METAMORPHIC POSTCARDS
(November 2010 - October 2011)
Since
Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted his metamorphic portraits (made up of
fruits, flowers or little animals) in the 16th century, several artists
decided to make this kind of composite paintings.
In particular,
in the last decade of the 19th century, postcards with metamorphic
caricatures of famous people or mythological characters became popular.
There didn“t use to be much information about the author of the
caricatures, sometimes not even the name of the publisher could be
found.
In this exhibition you can see almost seventy examples of
metamorphic postcards. We include the name of the author in the few
cases in which he is a known artist. However, we have found out an
important fact: a lot of these metamorphic postcards were not totally
original. They were inspired in photographs or classical portraits and
the metamorphic artists replace the original faces with composite ones.
This is why in some examples we will also present the original source.
Most
of these postcards were published from 1890 to 1920, so we present here
an old and fascinating collection. We hope you enjoy it.
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METAMORPHIC POSTCARDS
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