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Our Mother Told Us Not to Play With Our Vegetables

December 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments

While we spent our childhood being told to sit still and eat all our vegetables, the upbringing in Chinese artist Ju Duoqi's house was obviously different. She's making a living out of exhibiting vegetables that she's turned into art.

Clearly unsatisfied with using the traditional paint or pastels or even getting creative with tin cans, Ju's gone the route of pickling, drying and boiling vegetables to use in recreating famous paintings like the Mona Lisa or Andy Warhol's version of Marilyn Monroe.

Curious travelers can find the vegetable works in the Vegetable Museum exhibition running now in Beijing; perhaps it's the only art gallery exhibition where you can have you art and eat it too.

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[Photo: Ananova]