At the museum on Tuesday I visited a temporary exhibition of the work of a Brazilian American artist called Vik Muniz.
These large art works are photographs of individual items laid out to create a specific image. The first work, above, is an image of Lewis Carroll's drawing of Alice Liddell, created using plastic toys and novelties.
The three images are created using toy soldiers..
The works are often representations of well known images but created in different media.. The artist's interest is in the point where a complete and familiar image is broken down into small parts which have an identity in their own right but don't necessarily bear any resemblance to the whole picture.
These Mona Lisa images were created in peanut butter and jelly (jam) and then photographed.
Some of the works such as this representation of 'Narcissus' by Caravaggio were created on a factory floor using full sized pieces of furniture and discarded items - then photographed from a height of 40 feet.
Other works recreated well known paintings or landscapes using collages magazine images or, in the case of this picture of Paris, old postcards..
It was certainly an interesting exhibition!
Interesting picture of the Mona Lisa!!!!
ReplyDeleteSome interesting ideas. Shame the jam and peanut butter Mona Lisa was a photograph. It could have been useful if you were hungry.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but the work had been done about 5 years ago so could have been a bit stale!
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