Post Your Artful Potato (or other vegetable) Challenge

Dawg Pics

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Winner for Bragging Rights is @BackdoorHippie
The thread will remain open if anybody wants to post vegetable images in the future.

Most of us know about the recent buzz regarding the million dollar potato image. The challenge for our clever Nikonites is to post an artful image of a single potato or other vegetable. Make is serious, make is silly, make it satirical, make it your own, but make that vegetable a star. @RON suggested that this challenge may produce images that can be sent to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and I think that is a fantastic idea. Thanks to @RON, @Horoscope Fish and @nidding for the encouragement to introduce this challenge.

**I wanted to add that [MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] had the suggestion for a contest as well. I just saw it in the other thread.**


Below is:
Steampunk Spud
"Bougee is in the eye of the beholder."

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RON_RIP

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Sticking as close to the potato photo that started this whole thing,a completely naked potato in all it vegetative glory, I submit Russet #1, a study in sepia_AAA6923 - Version 2.jpg
 

Horoscope Fish

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I submit Russet #1, a study in sepia

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Thumbing your nose at Fauvism (tres chic, non?) as you have here I, as the viewer, felt invited to join in an organic adventure of monotheistic chivalry. I love the dramatic execution and the subtle, yet distinctively adolescent, overtones of post-war era consumption that permeate the image from corner to corner. *swirls brandy* You've further wowed me with your restrained use of smooth, perceptual gradations which you have balanced, almost perfectly, with a sort effervescent tonality; a veritable digitized bioluminescence as it were; reflecting back at us an incoherent, yet deeply terrestrial, manifesto of anachronistic Machiavellian altruism.

*swirls brandy*
 

RON_RIP

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Thumbing your nose at Fauvism (tres chic, non?) as you have here I, as the viewer, felt invited to join in an organic adventure of monotheistic chivalry. I love the dramatic execution and the subtle, yet distinctively adolescent, overtones of post-war era consumption that permeate the image from corner to corner. *swirls brandy* You've further wowed me with your restrained use of smooth, perceptual gradations which you have balanced, almost perfectly, with a sort effervescent tonality; a veritable digitized bioluminescence as it were; reflecting back at us an incoherent, yet deeply terrestrial, manifesto of anachronistic Machiavellian altruism.

*swirls brandy*
Say what? Does this mean it is worth a million bucks?:encouragement: I'm a Bourbon man myself.
 

hark

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I had a Mr. Potato Head when I was a kid. Would have enjoyed recreating this! ;)

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Kevin H

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I'm waiting for naked potato not tonight I got noddles cooking maybe tomorrow potato in the raw then in a nice bubble bath of oil :D
 

RON_RIP

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Looks like a potato to me -- which may be why my doctorate in art history was denied

If you did not see it as a symbol of the Great Irish Potato Famine and it's effect on 19th Century American immigration quotas, no wonder you did not get your doctorate. Just sayin


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wev

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If you did not see it as a symbol of the Great Irish Potato Famine and it's effect on 19th Century American immigration quotas, no wonder you did not get your doctorate. Just sayin

"ce pas est une pomme de terre"

Dada didn't do potato unless it was distilled and neither did I
 

RON_RIP

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"ce pas est une pomme de terre"

Dada didn't do potato unless it was distilled and neither did I

Well that is a darn good use for them, but as far as I know, no one has yet paid a million dollars for a picture of a vodka bottle; although I don't know why not


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wev

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Well that is a darn good use for them, but as far as I know, no one has yet paid a million dollars for a picture of a vodka bottle; although I don't know why not

Ah, but from reports, it may have been the booze that sealed the deal -- wonder what the next morning was like? Not the image -- or bill -- I'd want to sober up to.
 

Dawg Pics

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Ah, but from reports, it may have been the booze that sealed the deal -- wonder what the next morning was like? Not the image -- or bill -- I'd want to sober up to.

There are several versions regarding how the acquisition took place. One stated they didn't complete the deal for over a week after the initial encounter.
I'd like to here the story from both parties, and I would like to see a receipt.

Apparently, as long as the name of a famous artist is on the print, the price can be sky high. That is what they are really paying for anyway. I think. Hell, I don't know.
 
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