Pinata originated in China and was used to celebrate the Spring Festival. The earliest pinata was seeds and small fruits wrapped in paper.
Marco Polo learned this custom during his travels in China. Then, it spread to Italy, France and Spain.
A pi?ata is a container made of paper that can be filled with toys and candies. It can be hung up for people to hit with sticks. After it is broken, the toys and candies inside will fall out. It is a popular item for foreign parties or festivals. common games.
Usually pi?atas come in all kinds of weird shapes, with the most common shape being a little donkey. However, with the changes of the times, many people actually use Pokémon, Totoro and other cartoon characters that are now popular with children to make more " "Modern" pi?ata.
However, the pi?ata made by Los Angeles artist Robert Benavidez adopts a mysterious and surreal style.
For example, he once used the painter Hieronymus Bosch’s work Garden of Earthly Delights as the theme and created a series of pi?atas that look like creatures that only exist in fantasy worlds.
Recently, he has been looking back to the Middle Ages for inspiration, and has made three-dimensional illustrations of fantastic hybrid creatures in the Luttrell Psalter, a manuscript of the British Museum, and made them into pi?atas using traditional methods.
This book was commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell around 1325 ~ 1335 from an unknown scribe and artist to record daily life in rural England in the 14th century on parchment.
Hmm... It is said to be about daily life in the countryside, but actually it is more appropriate to say daily life in the Luttrell manor. After all, Luttrell originally commissioned this book to show off his wealth. However, for future generations, what is recorded in the bookEverything has become the best clue for studying life at that time.
The illustrations in the book include some fantasy creatures that look like a mixture of various animals. After being transformed into "Pi?ata" by Benavidez, they look inexplicably cute.
Especially the corners of its eyes are filled with all kinds of human emotions, making people just want to touch its head.
Charming and surreal style, the fantasy hybrid creature sculptures make people fall in love with them more and more!
If you also like these creatures made of paper, you might as well try DIY. Don't ask Pangpangjiang for tutorials, they don't provide them~
