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What Materials Did Vik Muniz Use?

What materials did Vik Muniz use?

In addition to his reworking of the age-old medium of photography, Muniz is noted for using a variety of eclectic and found materials such as chocolate, jelly, tomato sauce, diamonds, toys, and trash to recreate his or others' original imagery.

Why is Vik Muniz important?

Vik Muniz is an influential contemporary Brazilian artist best known for his complex photographic works. Sourcing a wide variety of eclectic and found materials—chocolate, jelly, toys, and trash—Muniz recreates iconic art historical works and scenes from popular culture.

How does Vik Muniz create his artwork?

Primarily working with unconventional materials such as tomato sauce, diamonds, magazine clippings, chocolate syrup, dust, dirt, etc., Muniz creates works of art, referencing old master's paintings and celebrity portraits, among other things, and then photographs them.

Where does Vik Muniz live now?

Vik Muniz was born in São Paulo, Brazil but currently works in both New York City and Rio de Janeiro.

Is Vik Muniz married?

Malu Barretom. 2016 Vik Muniz/Spouse

What happened to Vik Muniz that allowed him to come to the United States?

Vik recalls an event when he was very poor and lived in Brazil. He tried to break up a fight between two men, and he was shot when he was walking to his car. Later the shooter gave him some money that allowed Vik to travel to USA.

What did Vik Muniz paint the Mona Lisa with?

They get photographs of images made with peanut butter and jelly and chocolate; a face formed in a plate of spaghetti; and portraits fashioned out of thousands of colorful plastic toys. For adults who are art-history neophytes, there is the easy gratification of spotting Leonardo's “Mona Lisa,” done by Mr.

Why does Vik Muniz use garbage?

To shape the varying contours of these countries, Muniz uses electronic waste scavenged from the dumpsters and favelas of Rio. His resulting waste-matter topographies are not lyrical flights of fancy but factu- ally based mappings of the geopolitical power differences between these regions.

How old is Vik?

59 years (Decem) Vik Muniz/Age

Why did Vik Muniz call his art project pictures of garbage?

Called “Pictures of Garbage,” they were created by Mr. Muniz in collaboration with the garbage pickers of Jardim Gramacho, a 321-acre open-air dump just outside Rio that is one of the largest landfills in Latin America. ... Muniz's Brooklyn home.

Why does Vik Muniz use appropriated images from art history?

Vik Muniz believes that there are no new visual ideas; only “an infinite amount of variations of very good existing ones." It is this philosophy that explains his heavy use of appropriation, the recontextualization of iconic images from the world of art and media, in conjunction with unexpected everyday materials, ...

How did Vik Muniz get to America?

In order not to press charges, the shooter offered him a substantial amount of money, which Muniz accepted. With it, he bought a ticket to the United States where he lived with his maternal aunt in the suburbs of Chicago.

What does Vik Muniz do?

Photographer PainterVisual ArtistFilm directorDrawer Vik Muniz/Professions