At all times, artists and sculptors did not cease to surprise the varieties of the forms and materials that they used when creating their masterpieces. So, at the end of the 19th century, the usual farmer laid the beginning of the development of a whole subculture, creating sculptures ... from butter.
Some references on oil sculptures can be found in the written sources of the Renaissance and Baroque era. At that time it was a way of decoration on banquets. In the 19th century in the United States, the usual farmer Caroline Shock Brooks laid the beginning of a single subculture that chooses the creamy oil as the main material.
Being a girl, Caroline was engaged in painting and sculpture. However, severe farm work practically did not leave time for creativity. In 1867, after the unsuccessful crop of cotton, the farmer, trying to find additional sources of income, creates its first sculpture of oil. People liked this idea of sculpting.
True success and fame come to Caroline in 1873. Being impressed by the poems of the Danish drama about the blind princess of Iolante, the sculptor created her bas-relief portrait and donated his church during the fair. In 1874, "dreaming Iolanta" was exhibited in the gallery of Cincinnati, where for two weeks the sleeping princess came to take a look over 2,000 for two weeks human.
When Caroline in 1878 was invited to show their creation "The Dreaming Iolanthe" at the World Exhibition in Paris, then she faced the problem of transporting sculptures. So that the figure is not melted, the woman placed it into a special flat saucepan, filled with ice. I had to even delay the ship's outlet from the port due to the fact that Mrs. Brooks could not find enough ice. When the customs service checked the Caroline cargo, it determined the sculpture not as a work of art, but as 50 kg of butter.
After the presentation of several more works by Caroline Shock Brooks, the manufacture of sculptures from oil becomes very popular in America. On each agricultural fair, oil figures dedicated to farms were attended by farmer.