Out of plasticine and medieval fable, they mold a fantasy world filled with romance, poetry and executions.

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"If that proves too taxing, then they are asked to organise a fashion parade or make Plasticine models, " he added.

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Visitors to "elBulli: Ferran Adria and the Art of Food" will see sketches, menus, film, photographs and even plasticine models of food, showing how those memorable menus were created.

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If George Bush senior could anoint Mr Quayle vice-president and still get elected in 1988, then his son could appoint a plasticine chicken in 2000 and not be harmed.

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Gallagher's follow-up, DeLuxe, in addition to being a technical tour de force of printmaking, turns advertisements many of them for products designed to make blacks look whiter (skin lighteners, hair straighteners, coiffed wigs) into grotesques, with blank zombie eyes, masked faces and Plasticine creatures that appear to be crawling out of a model's head.

WSJ: Ellen Gallagher, the Global Art Star | WSJ. Magazine May 2013