Brazilian artist Vik Muniz ... photography, Muniz works predominantly with canonical images from art history and reconceptualizes them using untraditional, and often surprising materials, such ...

Vik Muniz is fascinated by the backs of famous paintings (Ivo Hoekstra ... Muniz and his team must go in search for the raw materials, some of which are no longer sold or exist.

Vik Muniz: Verso brings all the works together in a display for the first time. Muniz first thought of recreating the frames of famous paintings when he saw Picasso’s “Woman Ironing” (1904 ...

The back of the 1884-86 painting, currently housed at the Art Institute of Chicago, tells a different story: It’s riddled with the names of graffitists, carved into the frame’s wooden ...

Muniz accepted the ... what makes an image a work of art? I can always tell when somebody is going one step beyond what is usually done. I have worked with many materials for many years because ...

Any material can be made into a piece of art. And this is especially true with Brazilian artist and photographer Vik Muniz. Famous for employing a diverse range of materials in his creations ...

Some of these portraits drew on famous images from the art history canon ... than its source material suggests, and there is always new meaning to discover. Vik Muniz is a contemporary artist ...

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Brazilian artist and photographer Vik ... materials, combining them, and seeing what comes out of it. It's a very creative process. But sometimes being too creative makes for bad food. Muniz ...

continue his obsession with remaking famous paintings, this time using scraps torn from glossy magazines. The photographer Vik Muniz and his 2008 “Pictures of Garbage,” using material from a ...

Vik Muniz’s trademark style is to make art out of non-art materials. Over the years this has included food, so we were intrigued to see what edible masterpiece the Brazilian artist would send us. He ...