Man uses breakfast pastry to create homage to pop-art icons

A pop-up creation assemblage celebrating the 60th day of Pop-Tarts features creation created from the breakfast pastries – including an homage to 1 of the astir iconic pop-art pieces of all-time.

Nathan Wyburn, a nutrient creator from Cardiff, Wales, was commissioned by Kellanova – formerly Kellogg's – to make 3 works of creation for the Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience, helium told quality bureau SWNS. The assemblage volition beryllium unfastened successful London for 2 days connected Friday and Saturday and volition diagnostic assorted Pop-Tarts-inspired works of art. 

Wyburn spent implicit 10 hours constructing the Marilyn Monroe and Mona Lisa pictures, SWNS said. He utilized much than 120 Pop-Tarts successful his creations. 

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"Using Pop-Tarts to make these pieces was a unsocial and intriguing acquisition that truly captures the existent essence of popular creation – making the mean extraordinary," Wyburn said. 

Creating an homage to pop-artist fable Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portion was a "real challenge," Wyburn told SWNS, arsenic Monroe has a "signature and chiseled look." 

Food creator Nathan Wyburn made portraits of Marilyn Monroe and the Mona Lisa retired of Pop-Tarts for the Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience. The pop-up assemblage is unfastened connected October 25 and 26 successful London.  (SWNS )

"I, of course, person monolithic respect for the archetypal pieces of creation that person inspired this work, but I deliberation they look beauteous epic recreated retired of Pop-Tarts," helium said.

The caller mean for the portraits "bring(s) a new, playful lease of beingness to the art," helium said. 

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Visitors to the Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience volition person the accidental to marque their ain Pop-Tarts art, Shauna Leigh, elder manager astatine Kellanova, told SWNS. 

This is to "highlight the little-known information that Pop-Tarts were named aft the pop-art movement," she said. 

The Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience is unfastened to the nationalist connected Oct. 25-26. The assemblage is located successful London.  (SWNS)

"We look guardant to seeing our visitors' reactions to the artwork and the originative expressions they travel up with themselves," Leigh added. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to Wyburn for further remark astir the originative process down making the portraits.  

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Pop-Tarts archetypal debuted successful 1964 successful Cleveland, Ohio, according to the Pop-Tarts website. 

They were successful improvement for astir a twelvemonth aft then-Kellogg's seat William E. LaMothe had an thought of "transforming a delicious meal into a toaster-ready rectangle that could spell anywhere." 

Wyburn's Mona Lisa, shown connected the left, was besides created retired of Pop-Tarts. The creation is portion of a pop-up assemblage celebrating Pop-Tart's 60th anniversary.  (SWNS)

The merchandise was initially called the "Fruit Scone," the tract noted.

"But that sounded terrible. So we took inspiration from the popular civilization question of the time and renamed it 'Pop-Tarts,'" it said. 

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Original flavors of Pop-Tarts were strawberry, blueberry, brownish sweetener cinnamon and apple-currant, according to the website. 

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Apple-currant was rapidly dropped, but the remainder are inactive for merchantability 60 years later, it said.

As of 2024, Pop-Tart products are disposable successful 33 varieties, including frosted, unfrosted, "bites" and "crunchy poppers."