UK: Classic Paintings and Film Stills Given Wheat-Free Makeovers in ‘Gluten Free Museum’ Project
18th November 2015
It is well known that a lot of very strange stuff lurks on the internet, but one French blogger’s ‘Gluten Free Museum’ is one of the stranger artistic discoveries.
Got that in one.
Graphic artist Arthur Coulet decided to airbrush all wheat-containing products out of classic paintings and film stills, not to make fun of the gluten-free movement, but as “a joke”. The idea first came to him when he noticed gluten-free ads, but he does not follow a gluten-free diet himself.
It would be even ‘funnier’ if he included the starved corpses of the people who depended on wheat for their daily bread. ‘ROFL’ as I believe the ‘kids’ say today.
Coulet’s Gluten Free Museum started drawing attention in April and soon, news sites began interpreting his project as a mockery of the suddenly popular gluten-free diet. “It’s art, minus the gluten. Finally,” The Huffington Post wrote, but Coulet insists there is no message behind his blog.
Yeah, having a point is just so fifteen minutes ago.