The Starry Night in breakfast cereal
It would seem corn and Van Gogh’s The Starry Night are indelibly connected in the American imagination. First Don McLean wrote a popular song about the painting, and now pupils of Sky View high school in Smithfield, USA, have recreated the work in breakfast cereal.
Using the school’s gymnasium as a canvas, 150 pupils poured two tons of colourful Malt-O-Meal on the floor to create a 22 x 27 metre masterpiece. The school hopes that this will get students to appreciate art. The project was finished on Saturday and was removed afterwards and fed to pigs.
Fox has photos.
When I was 15 yo in high school, our art teacher (Yale School of Art grad) was big on Josef Albers color theory and I used a spectrum of color strips from paint samples and colors from magazines to glue them on – “paint” – a 6″ x 8″ cardboard of the Starry Night painting.