Vik Muniz post 2

2. Can art be both humorous and meaningful?

I believe that Art can be humorous and meaningful. Many of the most meaningful events you will ever experience in life will have a humorous aspect to them, from graduation to marriage. Humour can help make a situation that you will never remember stay with you forever, and if that is used to your advantage, meaningful art can be even more distinctive. Vik Muniz's Clown Skull is, in my opinion, a good example of how you can take something serious and rather important and make it lighter and more distinctive. One of his other works, The Rocking Podium, also puts humour and meaningful events together, although in this instance he appears to be making light of the idea of winning. The pictures that go along with this post exemplify that art can be both humorous and meaningful. Amy Steins Crime Fighter shows in a somewhat light hearted manner that anyone can be a hero and noy only that, but how crime can have an impact on anybody. The oher pciture, Anonymous, could be an attempt to highlight they way in which media is shaping our lives.

Vik Muniz post 1

1. Which of Muniz’s pieces do you enjoy and why?

From Muniz's video, I have two favorite pieces; they are The Clown Skull and The Last Supper (Chocolate 2001). I enjoy The Last Supper (Chocolate 2001) mainly because it is made of Chocolate. Admittedly, it is an amazing piece of art that must have taken countless sticky hours, but the real attraction of the piece, in my opinion, is the irony of something called The Last Supper being made out of and edible substance. It is also interesting think about how this scene should be a somewhat bittersweet moment in biblical terms which leads me to ask: "What kind of Chocolate did he use"? The Clown Skull is an interesting piece of work. The piece appears to be satirizing death, finding something to laugh about in it. It is somewhat uplifting in its own way because of this.

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