Ju Duoqi’s Vegetable Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Food & Drinks, Pictures on November 28, 2008 at 3:45 pm



Mona Tofu by Ju Duoqi

Chinese artist Ju Duoqi, 35, specializes in a unique art medium: vegetables! (well, technically digital veggies - but who cares?). Behold her masterpiece above, the veggie Mona Lisa ("Mona Tofu") made out of rice, sea kelp, and tofu.

In The Vegetable Museum series, she revisits in a stunning way some masterpieces of the western painting. Making use of vegetables and food of China’s everyday life – tofu, cabbage, ginger, lotus roots, coriander, sweet potato… – and through digital manipulation, she presents a puzzling series of vegetable compositions representing world famous paintings like Mona Lisa, The Cene by Leonard Da Vinci, The Dream by Pablo Picasso or Marilyn Monroe by Warhol.

Here are a few more:


Napoleon on Potatoes by Ju Duoqi


Van Gogh made of Leek by Ju Duoqi

See many more at Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery: Link - via Compass WebWorks

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8 comments to "Ju Duoqi’s Vegetable Art"

  1. Evilbeagle
    November 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Best use for tofu ever!

    These are pretty amazing. I can imagine it’s difficult enough to do something original, but to capture the spirit of a painting that’s already been done and is famous must be even harder.

  2. Rocky Rook
    November 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    Yes … you’d have to know not only color, but texture and what veggies to use. That is pretty unique.

  3. Woogie
    November 28th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    That Mona Lisa one just gives me the creeps for some reason! Perhaps the rice looks a little too much like maggots.

  4. renderanything
    November 29th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    Mmmmm, healthy ones and zeroes.

    I wonder if she photographs her own veggies or culls them from the internet.

  5. raina_c
    November 29th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    Really amazing!!!

  6. The Sexy Pedestrian
    November 29th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    These things always freak me right out, I have no idea why.

  7. ernest
    November 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    It would be 10 times better if they were real veggie collage/assemblages.

  8. vero4902
    December 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    mmm… art…


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