Photographer Kelly McCollam recreates the works of Vincent van Gogh in rich detail, constructing her landscapes using spices, salt, and food coloring. The artist’s Salt of the Earth photo series shows the wheatfields, cypress trees, and other instantly recognizable snapshots from the famous Dutch painter’s classic works. Flaky and grainy textures add an interesting definition to each piece. Check out a few of McCollam’s spicy portraits past the break. Read More »

We’ll be the first ones to tell you how scrumptious we find the gentlemen of the Beatles and their musical talents, but mixed media artist Henry Hargreaves has taken the next step and immortalized the group in food — until they get eaten. Hargreaves created these enormous portraits of John, Paul, Ringo and George entirely out of bread, all toasted to varying degrees, as part of his ongoing series Toasted. Looks good to us, though we wonder if a little jam would hurt anyone. See more from Toasted here, and click through to see the fearsome foursome in all their crunchy, buttery glory.

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Even for those of us who enjoy a good steak tartare, there is something unnerving about Jasmin Schuller‘s Sweet Meat, a series of photos where the candy and ice cream treats we know and love are constructed entirely out of meat products. Yes, that’s ground beef in the sugar cone, and that sundae is topped with blood. Talk about making the familiar strange! Take a look at Schuller’s disturbing creations after the jump.

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Kenny Scharf is on a roll — again. The old-school street artist and new-school pop artist is making some of his best work ever and getting high visibility for it. His 2009 Wynwood Walls mural is one of the Miami project’s liveliest paintings, and his Cosmic Cavern installation in an Air Stream trailer there in December was a showstopper that had skate-kids lining up to get a peek. Scharf’s mural at Houston and Bowery in New York — a site made famous for graffiti art by his bud Keith Haring — has garnered lots of media attention for its mutating heads, and continuous maintenance and his upcoming Gatescapes project, which features 100 spray-paintings on storefront shutters, is already getting a buzz.

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Taiwanese artist YaYa Chou moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to study experimental animation at the California Institute for the Arts. She’s since branched out to other mediums, working with watercolor, embroidery, and even candy. Her work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne Indiana. In her Gummi Bear series, which uses the classic Haribo candy as a medium, Chou explores the relationship between food consumption and class.

“The bright colors and soft texture of children’s snacks construct a romantic scenario which draws my attention to the dangerous ingredient behind them,” she explains. “By rearranging the embellished snacks in the forms of luxury commodity, I wish to pose the questions: Who consume these foods? Who has the choice to choose?” Click through to see more of her work.

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All across the globe, at all hours of the day, a child somewhere is playing with his food. Luckily for us, some of those kids grow up and continue to do so, providing us with some of the craziest — and most enticing — meals good enough to frame. We love to look at them so we scoured the internet to find our favorites, and, well, now we’re just hungry. A look at some more of the most delectable, edible, and scrumdiddlyumptious pieces of art after the jump.

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