Chuck (from Pictures of Color)
Artist: Vik Muniz (American, born 1961)
Date: 2001
Dimensions:
(Image) H: 96 in. (243.8 cm); W: 72 in. (182.9 cm);
(Frame) H: 98 3/8 in. (249.9 cm); W: 74 3/16 in. (188.4 cm); Depth: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Medium: Chromogenic print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, by exchange
Object number: 2004.85
Label Text:What do you see when you look at Chuck? A photograph? A clever illusion created by color chips? The color chips themselves? All of the above? Vik Muniz likes to play with layers of visual perception, questioning the truth of the visual information photography communicates: “My work is made…to destabilize the viewer’s notion of what a photograph is.” Notice how the deliberately crinkled and bent chips simultaneously enhance the illusion and draw attention to how it was constructed.
Muniz recreates famous images from the history of art with impermanent materials like sugar, chocolate sauce, and dust, and then photographs them. This portrait of artist Chuck Close is part of a series of large, gridlike replications of paintings Muniz made with Pantone color chips. The “pixilated” effect, that only resolves at a distance, refers to the pieces of color that make up a photograph or a digital image—in the same way that dabs of color make up a painting. In Chuck the arrangement of color chips also resembles Chuck Close’s own method of painting with grids.
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Muniz recreates famous images from the history of art with impermanent materials like sugar, chocolate sauce, and dust, and then photographs them. This portrait of artist Chuck Close is part of a series of large, gridlike replications of paintings Muniz made with Pantone color chips. The “pixilated” effect, that only resolves at a distance, refers to the pieces of color that make up a photograph or a digital image—in the same way that dabs of color make up a painting. In Chuck the arrangement of color chips also resembles Chuck Close’s own method of painting with grids.
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