Giving vegetarians the heads-up

At my History of Art class this week we touched on the 16th century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.  The son of Biagio, he worked on stained glass windows and frescoes. He was famous for his portraits, done using fruit, vegetables, flowers (and sometimes fish) arranged in such a way as to represent a likeness of his subject.

These portraits were a very early form of surrealism and could very well be the symbol of vegetarianism! Instead of the classic green V sign on our labels, how great would it be to have a work of art staring back at us.

Funnily enough, we call old people with white curly, permed or set hair "cauliflower heads" as in "we'll catch the biddy bus with all the cauliflower heads!" Arcimboldo was definitely a-head of his time.