I Me Mine GCSE 2009 - Portraits From Personal Objects

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - 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 recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

Vertemnus 1591

The Librarian - 1566

Links for more Arcimbaldo

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html

http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/arcimboldo01biography.html (very good pictures)

Chris Peters Vanitas

wonderful painter of Vanitas / themed still life paintings. Skulls as barriers that protect
his website http://www.chrispeters.com/
direct link to the vanitas paintings http://www.chrispeters.com/vanitas_still_life_paintings.htm

Lorraine Shemesh Swimming Pool Paintings

Water as a barrier
http://www.lorraineshemesh.com/

Trees as barriers

Trees as barriers, views through.

Craig Stephens Bridges and Dams

http://craigstephens.blogspot.com/

Craig Stephens is a practicing Artist and Art teacher in California. Amazingly as well as holding down a full time job he is producing a painting a day and exhibiting them on his Blog

A Dam as a barrier holding back the water

A bridge as a barrier

Hieronymus Bosch

Ascent of the Blessed attributed to Hieronymus Bosch 1500-1504. This painting relates to the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe earlier in the blog as it uses a similar composition and way of framing the figures.

http://sirjohnlawesart.blogspot.com/2008/01/robert-mapplethorpe-and-others-human.html

Pieter Bruegel Trees and barriers

16th Century painting of a landscape by Pieter Bruegel