So this is impressive: A group of 150 high school students in Utah have created a 6,400-square-foot replica of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night out of two tons breakfast cereal — Malt-O-Meal to be exact. It took them almost a week to complete the entire thing; a plastic sheet with an outline of the design dictated which colors went where. This epic project reminds us of the more small-scale works (at least in comparison) found in San Francisco-based artist Ryan Alexiev‘s campy Cereal Mosaics series; check out images from that after the jump.
Ryan Alexiev, Breakfast of Champion, 2009. Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish. 50″ x 67″.
Ryan Alexiev, The Larry King ShO’s, 2008. Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish. 55″ x 40″.
Left: Ryan Alexiev, O’s-ama, 2008. Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish. 40″ x 60″. Right: Ryan Alexiev, Pamel’Os, 2006. Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish. 32″ x 40″.
Ryan Alexiev, Sucramentum, 2008. Breakfast cereal on wood panel, varnish. 72″ x 60″.
Comments (13)
Wow… waste two tons of breakfast cereal that could have fed thousands of starving children!
That is so epic. I wish I could do that…
Still have to learn.
@Bently Once they were done, the cereal was donated to feed pigs.
What a f__king waste of time … and perfectly edible cereal.
looks kool but its fuckin pointless
I don’t care how hungry a child is, Malt-o-Meal Cereals are awful, unless they changed the formula since I was a child…
“wow…waste two tons of breakfast cereal that could have fed thousands of starving children” boo hoo, get a life..
I’d be more impressed if it wasn’t just copying already existing works in a new medium.
bahahaha seriously get a life “Wow… waste two tons of breakfast cereal that could have fed thousands of starving children!” enjoy the art
Interesting art. Keep it up. And try to do some original pieces not copies.
you can make kids do anything,huh?
Bringing 150 kids together in the name of art, original or copied, may have a more lasting effect than the “waste” of cereal. Redo-ing/copying/re-purposing art, especially at that age, is no less a positive undertaking than an original piece. The originality here is in the purpose and the process.
“I’d be more impressed if it wasn’t just copying already existing works in a new medium.”
art feeds off itself in order to grow in new directions
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