Our coop was supposed to visit the Seattle Asian Art Museum today. After a morning of dental appt.'s (takes awhile when you have three children seeing the dentist), we headed down to seattle. Of course we got there a little late and did not see anyone else from our group there.
We had a great time though. They are featuring an artist named Vik Muniz from Brazil. Man, this guy is talented!!!
He works with very odd and yet common day mediums. Some of his collections included art from paint chip cards, clustered small toys, mounds of odd things, dirt, sugar, peanut butter, chocalet.........
Each work of art had meaning also, he did a set called "Sugar kids". While he was in the Carribean he met children that were in poverty and worked on the sugar plantations. When he came home he copied pictures of them by using sugar on brown pieces of paper, amazing......
He did WW1 images out of toy soldiers, Frankenstien out of caviar, Medusa out of spaghetti (The children accused him of playing with his food), and our favorite, a double Mona Lisa, one out of peanut butter the other out of jelly. Here is a great link to the artist and his work.
http://www.artnet.com/awc/vik-muniz.html
I am off now to find a frame for our new peanut butter and Jelly Mona Lisa poster :)
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