Vik Munniz Analysis

The portraits look great and the pickers were the ones who created them. Vik Muniz turns materials (in this case trash) into ideas. Definitely, utilizing trash as the material to create these pictures was a great idea, because there’s no better way at least in these cases to represent the pickers, but with the thing that gives them life. They make their living from the trash. To some of us our trash is nothing but trash, but for someone else, it’s a way to bring food to their table. In this case, the trash was a way to support many families, create a local library, and even create famous

A quote often used is, "One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” This describes Eighner’s feelings perfectly. At one point he stated, "People throw away perfectly good stuff, a lot of perfectly good stuff."(384) This proves the point that once someone throws something away, it doesn't mean it is trash, just ready for a change of ownership. Eighner few dumpster diving as an art because of all the cool stuff he finds on a regular. Things such as: clothes, type writer, love letters, ragdolls et cetera. He mentioned that he hardly ever pick up things without envisioning the

Andy Mulligan’s “Trash” deals with challenging issues, including poverty and children living in third world countries. He uses setting descriptions and rich characters in this book to help the reader to understand poverty and third world countries as it helps the reader to understand the themes in the book. Poverty and third world countries are also presented to the reader as Mulligan uses different language techniques throughout the book like the description of the dumpsite. Sensory language and imagery are the techniques that Mulligan uses to cause the reader to almost physically feel some or all the five senses that Mulligan intends to share with his audience.

Ulices Chaidez was born on October 23 1999, he’s 17 years old. When he was six years old he began playing the drums. He is from Sinaloa Mexico. His father and grandfather to start doing music. His first song is "Andamos en el ruedo". Ulices has more than one million viewers on youtube. The up-and-coming singer from sinaloa, signed by DEL Records, joined the new generation of Mexican Regional acts saying he was inspired by his father and his grandfather to start doing music.

Contemporary art is the art created in the present time. Today, artists affected by the social context and personal experiences reproduce pieces of art that question or make a point about controversial issues in our society. A great example is the painting created in 2006 called Great Detonators (“Grandes Detonadores”) by the Mexican artist Acamonchi. The painting is located in the exhibition The Very large Array: San Diego/ Tijuana Artist in the Peter C. Farrell Gallery inside the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCA). Acamonchi’s piece is a collage painting integrated by posters, stencils, and graffiti, which illustrate an obvious inspiration by the street art style. It is composed of cold colors such as blue, green, and aqua. Its multiple media consist of spray, paper, tape, acrylic, and oil. Moreover, the gallery is presented in big white walls and it has natural and artificial white light. The surface texture of the piece is a combination of corrugated, flat and in some parts smooth. The size is about 8 feet wide and 8 feet long, the condition is excellent, and the frame is made of wood. Furthermore, the painting the Great Detonators conveys ideas about mass produced waste, political awareness and urban chaos. Consequently, the artist Acamonchi uses this piece of art to express his opinion about important issues today during our contemporary times.

Many times people have used discarded items for their art. Patchwork quilts are created from scraps, rags, and remnants that a person finds in the trash. Quilters then combine the trash to make a new, beautiful pattern. In New York, some artists created a sculpture garden and performance space out of a gas station. They turn abandoned cars and other urban debris into a community work of art that continues to grow. (Miller 3) Famous artist Pablo Picasso collected all kinds of discarded items he found and created sculptures. One of his most famous sculptures was Bull’s Head. Bull’s Head created in 1942, is made from a bicycle seat and handlebars cast in bronze. (Miller 5) Art can be created from discarded items and possibly even nature.

During Dan Mullen's introductory press conference as the new Florida Gators head coach, he emphasized multiple times his football team will play with "relentless effort". In the short 8 days as the Gators head coach, Mullen and his staff have been showing that same relentless mentality on the recruiting trail. Taking over a new program with three-weeks before the first signing period, his staff has been working around the clock.

What was accomplished when he used garbage to create art was a new way of seeing the use that garbage can make. In the eyes of a viewer, I saw beyond the garbage, I saw the big picture, I saw what he saw. To create such detailed images from the use of garbage was unbelievable. Muniz’s invention succeeded in my eyes because of the amount of time and effort that was put into the process of creating this new art. Not only that but he thought of using waste and items that have been in landfills, in a way that creates such large pieces of detailed art is extremely creative and takes much talent.

The film’s subplot involving Mary and Dr. Mierzwaik’s relationship is another example that erasing one from the brain, does not remove the existence of love from their heart. This is evident as Mary who is unaware that she underwent the procedure, reads quotes in order to impress Dr. Mierzwaik. Later, she finds out she once has an affair with Dr. Mierzwaik and got the procedure to erase him from her memories. In addition, Mary and Dr. Mierzwaik’s relationship repeats itself despite having Mary’s memories of Dr. Mierzwaik removed. This outlines the failure of the procedure as memories can be erased but emotions cannot.

I agree with Peter Chalk’s statements that the agricultural sector is vulnerable and the U.S is not prepared for dealing with acts of agro-terror. The United States agricultural system is a very important system for which it provides food for millions of people. However, such an important system, which keeps the citizens feed is not very well protected. With all the hormones used in present times to make the animals grow faster in order to feed all the citizens it weakens there immune system which makes them for susceptible to infections. A terrorist can easily expose a huge livestock farm with a foreign virus or bacterium that would not kill the livestock but infect them, consequently infecting all the people that eat the infected meat.

The work of art I chose to write about was Crown by Jean Shin, which is currently on display at the BRIC Biennial. This particular piece of art is hung from the ceiling of the museum and is constructed out of various metal chains. I believe that the materials that Jean Shin used to construct this piece are conveying a quintessential message to her viewers. The message I believe Shin is conveying via her medium is that each chain represents a different person in society and the variety of chains together represents society as a melting pot amongst a variety of other things. The interesting part of this piece is that the artist Jean Shin asked members of the community to donate their metal chains to contribute to the piece, this further backs

Patrick Doherty and Theo Jansen are a distinct group of artists in North Carolina. Patrick Doherty uses sticks and Theo Jansen uses PVC pipes. Patrick Doherty uses materials that we portray them to be, in my words, yard trash. He takes them and creates wonderful sculptures with the sticks he collects that give people with an awe-inspiring feeling. He enlists help from the community to help him create his works of art for all to see. He wanted to make art that is an “interplay between what you see and what it makes you feel, and how you react to it.” Doherty chooses sites for the art that are provocative and gives it the element of surprise. Theo Jansen uses PVC in ways that mix art with engineering. He designs ambulatory sculptures that are

After reading about the controversial artworks, I found that most of these artwork are labeled the way they are because they don’t fit social norm or it is either related to a touchy topic subject matter. In my opinion, I feel that artworks such as Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917) and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket (2016) are necessary in our society, because they create new perspective, tell ignored narratives, and etc. The Fountain is readymade urinal that is rotated and signed on the pedestal is “R Mutt”. This artwork it challenges the boundaries of what should be considered art and redefine the definition of art. I found the Fountain to be very fascinating because not only it was a bought urinal, I am amazed on how Duchamp transformed a simple

I am so glad to have had a chance to research such brilliant artists who have taken recycled artforms to a level so acceptable and easy to recreate for mainstream art

"We're victims of our own success. Money doesn't help creativity. We try to live modestly and don't have any assistants," expresses Tim Noble. Both British artists, Tim Noble and Sue Webster are popular, familiar artists. Noble and Webster are recognized for their distinctive art called silhouette or shadow art. Their punk and style moves are more than artistic. They not only create these efficient shadows, but use sustainable art. Meaning that they use a variety of recycled materials, that otherwise would be wasted. These artists use recycled trash like metal, broken tools, discarded wood, as well as gold jewelry and animals. Try donating one of your broken jewelry pieces to them and see it be molded in their next