When you see a piece of art, what do you see? Do you see a person or a thing, or is there a flashback of a memory; does it bring a certain emotion to the surface? Art can be shown in various ways, paintings, sculptures, portraits, etc. The piece of artwork that I choose from the class textbook is Elizabeth Taylor by Vik Muniz.
The first time I saw Vik Muniz’s artwork of Elizabeth Taylor, it surfaced an emotion. Admiring a person’s beauty, having the emotion of that person being pulchritudinous, or stunning. I was drawn to this masterpiece for the first time when I flipped through the pages of the book, “Understanding Art”. At the first glance of the piece of artwork, my eyes were drawn to the stunning reflection of silver, what seems to be …show more content…
At first, I thought this piece of art was made out of stick on rhinestones and I automatically fell in love with it, but after I researched and found out it was actually diamonds, I loved it even more. The obsession I have with diamonds is unexplainable, and I think that is why I was drawn into this piece of art so quickly. Vik Muniz was able to recreate the same spirit that Andy Warhol had in the 1960’s of Taylor, but Muniz had his own twist on his works of art. Using chocolates and diamonds, Muniz was able to differ himself from the other artists in his time period. In “Pictures of Diamonds”, the artist created a portrait of celebrities, but then he would photograph his work and blow up the image to make the diamonds be an impressive size for the eye to see. As said before, when I first saw the image of Elizabeth Taylor, that seemed to be mad out of rhinestones, I thought it was black and silver rhinestones. Vik Muniz used his creative touch with glamour and glittering diamonds to drawn the attention of people like myself to absolutely fall in love with it. Even though the portrait is only just a photograph, I would have loved to see the original piece and felt the texture of the diamonds that recreated the Hollywood actress. While admiring this piece of work,
The first time I saw Vik Muniz’s artwork of Elizabeth Taylor, it surfaced an emotion. Admiring a person’s beauty, having the emotion of that person being pulchritudinous, or stunning. I was drawn to this masterpiece for the first time when I flipped through the pages of the book, “Understanding Art”. At the first glance of the piece of artwork, my eyes were drawn to the stunning reflection of silver, what seems to be …show more content…
At first, I thought this piece of art was made out of stick on rhinestones and I automatically fell in love with it, but after I researched and found out it was actually diamonds, I loved it even more. The obsession I have with diamonds is unexplainable, and I think that is why I was drawn into this piece of art so quickly. Vik Muniz was able to recreate the same spirit that Andy Warhol had in the 1960’s of Taylor, but Muniz had his own twist on his works of art. Using chocolates and diamonds, Muniz was able to differ himself from the other artists in his time period. In “Pictures of Diamonds”, the artist created a portrait of celebrities, but then he would photograph his work and blow up the image to make the diamonds be an impressive size for the eye to see. As said before, when I first saw the image of Elizabeth Taylor, that seemed to be mad out of rhinestones, I thought it was black and silver rhinestones. Vik Muniz used his creative touch with glamour and glittering diamonds to drawn the attention of people like myself to absolutely fall in love with it. Even though the portrait is only just a photograph, I would have loved to see the original piece and felt the texture of the diamonds that recreated the Hollywood actress. While admiring this piece of work,