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

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

Nathan Wyburn, a nutrient creator from Cardiff, Wales, was commissioned by Kellanova – formerly Kellogg's – to create 3 useful of creation for nan Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience, he told news agency SWNS. The assemblage will beryllium unfastened successful London for 2 days connected Friday and Saturday and will characteristic various Pop-Tarts-inspired useful of art. 

Wyburn spent complete 10 hours constructing nan 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 create these pieces was a unsocial and intriguing acquisition that really captures nan existent principle of popular creation – making nan 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 chopped look." 

Food creator Nathan Wyburn made portraits of Marilyn Monroe and nan Mona Lisa retired of Pop-Tarts for nan 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 nan original pieces of creation that person inspired this work, but I deliberation they look beautiful epic recreated retired of Pop-Tarts," he said.

The caller mean for nan portraits "bring(s) a new, playful lease of life to nan art," he said. 

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Visitors to nan Pop (T)Art Gallery Experience will person nan chance to make their ain Pop-Tarts art, Shauna Leigh, elder head astatine Kellanova, told SWNS. 

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

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

"We look guardant to seeing our visitors' reactions to nan artwork and nan imaginative expressions they travel up pinch themselves," Leigh added. 

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

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Pop-Tarts first debuted successful 1964 successful Cleveland, Ohio, according to nan Pop-Tarts website. 

They were successful improvement for astir a twelvemonth aft then-Kellogg's chair 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 nan 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 nan "Fruit Scone," nan tract noted.

"But that sounded terrible. So we took inspiration from nan popular civilization activity of nan 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 nan website. 

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Apple-currant was quickly dropped, but nan remainder are still for waste 60 years later, it said.

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