http://www.metafilter.com/tags/saxton Posts tagged with 'saxton' at MetaFilter. Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:34:12 -0800 Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:34:12 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/39730/ARTAFRUITAVEGEMIN I couldn't remember the name of that guy who does <a href="http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/GDF/LP925H.jpg">fruit </a>and <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/feb01/images/food_tomato_jpg.html">veggie art</a>. No, not <a href="http://www.kei-kosa.com/index_flash.html">Kei Kosa</a>, he's <a href="http://www.veg-fantasy.com/vf_dis_star2.html">trippier </a>than this fellow. Not <a href="http://www.daisyweb.it/tubes/GregBrown/GregBrown_01.htm">Gre</a><strong>g B</strong><a href="http://www.artland.co.uk/page3068.htm">row</a><strong>n</strong> (not to be confused with "<a href="http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jwpicts_9_2001/GB_Murals/GB_Murals.html">mural Greg Brown</a>" of <a href="http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jwpicts_9_2001/GB_Murals/3_GB.html">Alien Saucer Crash </a>and <a href="http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jwpicts_9_2001/GB_Murals/9_GB.html">Buckethead Man with Paddleball </a>fame) either, though Brown's cool too, sometimes <a href="http://www.artland.co.uk/Brown_Escape_FB30.jpg">whimsical</a>, sometimes (woo!) <a href="http://www.poster.net/brown-greg/brown-greg-reclining-salad-2400429.jpg">sugg</a><strong>e</strong><a href="http://www.artland.co.uk/Brown_Bananappeal_FB148.jpg">stive</a><strong>.</strong> Fruits and vegetables have often been used suggestively, in <a href="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/VIS/V81.jpg">advert</a><strong>i</strong><a href="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/RIC/2100-3981.jpg">sing</a> or even classics, maybe the innuendo of <a href="http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/b/beuckela/">Joachim Beuckelaer</a><strong>'s</strong> <a href="http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/market_w.jpg">art </a>such as <a href="http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/womanveg.jpg">Woman Selling Vegetables</a><strong>.</strong> <br>No, the guy I was thinking of takes into consideration the intrinsic <a href="http://www.mannsbestfriend.com/Web%20Pages/Aug/Aug%20clipartetc/aug_si13.jpg">character </a>and <a href="http://www.tursa.franken.de/pics/roll_mobyhoney2.jpg">personality </a>of each <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/images/Food/slide1bellbunny.jpg">piece </a>he "sculpts." I remember! <strong>It's</strong> <a href="http://www.rit.edu/~ksh8863/saxtonfreymann.html">Sax</a><strong>t</strong><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/feb01/art.html">on</a> <strong>F</strong><a href="http://www.art-find.artselect.com/perl/frArtistByLastName?letter=F&artist=Saxton%20Freymann">rey</a><strong>m</strong><a href="http://www.scholastic.com/titles/authors/freymann_elffers/">a</a><strong>n</strong><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?cds2Pid=244&ATH=Saxton+Freymann">n</a><strong>!</strong> <br>(...maybe influenced by the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35496">Thai fruit-n-veggie carving tradition</a><strong>?</strong>)<br>(...but <a href="http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh/images/03/catmelonhead.htm"><em>he</em></a> does not approve.) tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.39730 Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:34:12 -0800 art brown freymann greg kei kosa pop-art saxton sculpture Shane