Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz created this incredible piece out of plants. I truly find it fascinating that his art is made out of the most unique things. This is not just an original piece, he made more than one. It also may be a message for a green America? When watching the documentary in class I felt he got a passion about going green after visiting the largest land fill in the world. I feel this piece is patriotic and sends multiple messages.

Vik Muniz

This piece is part of a collection called "Lovebugs," and was created in 2014. Most of Muniz's pieces were beautiful and seemed to tell an intricate story in his style and choice of medium. This one caught my eye because it felt the exact opposite. This is a literal representation of the title in such superficial terms. I had actually laughed when I saw this piece, which is not the usual emotion when looking at art work. Even more interesting was the fact that each of these six piece is priced at $2,000. This adds to the irony of the work, since someone would literally be paying for a picture of bugs on paper. Vik Muniz speaks about his pieces and states that it would not be interesting to "demonstrate the suffocating sameness of representations" as other artists do. His pieces are definitely unique. 

Vik Muniz

In this collage and photograph by Via Muniz, Vik uses his collection of vintage postcards to create a series called Postcards from Nowhere. The thickness of the postcards being collaged together make a 3D effect. This particular collage is of Venice, Italy. I really like how he used to the postcards to even make clouds in the sky.

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"Woman Ironing (Isis)" is a piece by Vik Muniz (top) that was inspired by a Picasso painting (bottom). Muniz replicated Picasso's work implementing garbage instead of oil paint. Muniz used bottle caps, rope, nuts, bolts, and other materials to create this work of art.

Vik Muniz

Vic Muniz created Icarus, After Titan in 2006 and it belongs to his series labeled Pictures Of Junk. In this series he uses junk/garbage to create figures such as god/goddesses and even recreations of painting such as Caravaggio's Narcissus. When I zoomed in to see what materials he used I saw things such as mini-fans, wooden boxes, rusted chains, and different forms of screws. I chose this painting because I one, think it looks beautiful, and two I like that it reminds me of pointillism. I view it almost as a reinvention of pointillism.  I also enjoy that he worked on this series with students from the favela when he was in Rio, Brazil.

Vik Muniz

This artwork by Vik Muniz is named “Descent from the Cross, After Caravaggio”. Muniz made this piece of art out of chocolate syrup in 2000. The artwork is a representation from Caravaggio’s painting “Descent from the Cross”. All of the art pieces that Muniz has created is made from different everyday materials such as peanut butter and jelly, garbage, dust, chocolate syrup, and photographs. This image captured my attention because it was able to illustrate an important moment in history. Muniz was able to mimic the facial expressions in this piece of art that Caravaggio has created to show an intense moment. I think that this artwork gives the attention that this moment should be given.

Vic's Spaghetti

I love this photograph by Vic Muniz. It reminds me of my childhood because my mother would always tell me, "don't play with your food," while we were sitting at the dinner table. If only I was capable of creating a masterpiece out of spaghetti and sauce to prove her wrong. I think this piece is fun and relatable to many, and it's almost impossible to look at without cracking a smile. Job well done Vic!

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is an incredible artist that uses trash to make his artwork. Some materials he is famous for using is peanut butter and jelly, chocolate syrup and string. In this piece Muniz makes a seahorse out of gold scraps. This seahorse is part of a series, the series contains a seahorse a humming bird and a fish all made of the same material. The reason I chose this work of art is because I love how the seahorse looks so realistic even though its made of gold! It is so impressive that he can turn trash into something so beautiful.

Vik Muniz

This piece of art by Vik Muniz is called the Double Mona Lisa and a part of his After Warhol series in 1999. What makes this piece so eye catching is the fact that no only is the image duplicated, but it's painted in both peanut butter and jelly. Artwork from Muniz use a wide range of materials including but not limited to garbage and "junk", photographs, chocolate syrup, and even baked beans. That alone definitely makes him a pioneer of his time. I personally like the original Mona Lisa, so I especially liked that Muniz was able to add such an original and fresh take to a classic painting. The fact that he is able to create such detail in the facial features like the eyes and the nose is really brilliant.

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is an artist who is most known for his artwork of taking everyday objects such as peanut butter, jelly, and even garbage to combine together to make his image. The picture of his that I chose is from an art series called Postcards from Nowhere. It is a picture of Venice that he created in 2014. He created this image by taking used postcards and cutting them to create this image of Venice. If you zoom in on parts of the image, you can actually make out certain parts of the postcards, such as a few written words of a message, or the stamp. This image stood out to me because I have actually been to this part of Italy before, so it was interesting to see the way in which he recreated the environment and its beauty. You can really see how he took his time to make sure the colors blend together perfectly to produce the image.

Vik Muniz, Atlas

Vik Muniz made this beautiful artwork out of garbage in 2008. I believe this signified a lot due to the fact that technically garbage is what makes up the universe. Though it does not start off as garbage, it is transformed into it by humans. As humans, we use many items, and then its remains become our waste. And as the saying goes: one man's waste is another man's treasure. With that being said, this is why I believe that this piece of artwork is so profound. The man in this artwork is literally carrying other men's waste.

Vik Muniz

This piece of artwork is called The Gipsy (Magna) from the series ‘’Pictures of Garbage’’. I think it is so interesting how he uses every day materials to create his masterpieces. This artwork is made from garbage. As seen in the video in class, he traveled to his hometown in Brazil and visited the largest garbage dump-  Jardim Gramacho.  It just shows that if you have an artistic and creative eye, you can use anything from sugar, jelly, peanut butter even garbage to produce a portrait.