Jannisol

Easily as concerned with social and environmental issues as it is with the fine-art career that sets it in motion,"Waste land" introduces Vik Muniz, an artist known for photographs that construct portraits or recreate famous images using materials like sugar, chocolate syrup, and trash. The Brooklyn-based photographer grew up poor in Brazil, and we meet him as he embarks on a massive project taking him to Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho, a garbage dump that receives more trash each day than any landfill in the world. throughout this film, Vik Muniz exposes the idea of social practice in art. Social practice is an art medium that focuses on engagement through human interaction and social discourse.Socially engaged art aims to create social and/or political change through collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions in the creation of participatory art.The discipline values the process of a work over any finished product or object. This especially holds ...

"Mindless Love"                                                                         "60s in space"

Cai Guo-Qiang INTRODUCTION ■     His inspiration draws upon Eastern philosophy, Maoist sentiment, and contemporary social issues. ■      Renowned for his ability to leverage tension and fear toward a common consideration of the beauty in destruction. (cycle of life) ■     He has established a reputation for creating large-scale installations and elaborate performances using gunpowder and fireworks. ■     Cai's work oftentimes promotes political ideas of revolution and the romance in idealism as a way to encourage people to consider ways to contribute to a more open sense of the world.     BODY Inopportune: Stage Two made in 2004   nine life-sized tiger replicas, arrows, Tigers: papier-mâché, plaster, fiberglass, resin,    and painted hide; arrows: brass, threaded bamboo shaft, and feathers. He depicts fearsome wild animals as victims of disturbing acts of violence, hopi...

Pop art , art in which common place objects (such as  comic strips , soup cans, road signs, and  hamburgers ) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated in the work. By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to brake the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art.  Pop  artists  began to look for inspiration in the world around them. They did this in a straightforward manner, using bold swaths of  primary colors , often straight from the can or tube of  paint . They adopted commercial methods like  silkscreening , or produced  multiples   of works, downplaying the artist’s hand.  Pop artists favored realism, everyday (and even mundane) imagery, and heavy doses of irony and wi t.  At the...