--- title: Banana Art on Instagram description: Banana peels like you've never seen them before canonical: https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-04T17:15:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:31.884Z og:title: Banana Art Is The Visual Movement We've Been Waiting For og:description: Banana peels like you've never seen them before. og:url: https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Banana Art Is The Visual Movement We've Been Waiting For twitter:description: Banana peels like you've never seen them before. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Banana Art Is The Visual Movement We've Been Waiting For by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 4, 2015 5:15 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 4, 2015 5:15 PM UTC The fine-art scene is hungry for something new. Something fresh. Something bananas. Netherlands-based artist Stephan Brusche started small. “I was at work and I just wanted to post something_._ I then noticed my banana and I figured it would make a nice post if I just drew a little happy face on it,” he told [Bored Panda](http://www.boredpanda.com/banana-art-stephan-brusche/). “I took a ballpoint pen and just started drawing. I was pretty amazed how pleasant a banana peel is to draw on.” Brusche, who posts his art to his [Instagram account](http://instagram.com/isteef), soon started experimenting with the banana’s shape — peeling and carving the fruit into surprising sculptures. And even political statements: Brusche has dabbled in other fruit: But really it’s all about that banana: You can buy the artwork on his [site](http://sb77.nl) — although you’re on your own when it comes to preservation. (h/t: [Bored Panda](http://www.boredpanda.com/banana-art-stephan-brusche/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/"},"headline":"This Banana Art Is The Visual Movement We've Been Waiting For","datePublished":"2015-02-04T17:15:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:31.884Z","description":"Banana peels like you've never seen them before","url":"https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Art","Instagram","Fine Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3695466/banana-art-instagram/","name":"This Banana Art Is The Visual Movement We've Been Waiting For"}}]}] ```