Winter (After Arcimboldo), a new work by Philip Haas.

Inspired by Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting from 1563, Philip Haas has created a sculptural interpretation which accentuates the original work’s visual puzzle of natural forms: bark, branches, twigs, moss, fungi and ivy - as they are reconfigured to form a human portrait. The resulting work is at once grotesque, earthy and exuberant. A fifteen-foot-tall version was exhibited in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in September 2010, before traveling this year to the Piazza del Duomo in Milan and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.