Vic, you are one tough cookie

Vic Muniz was our last class topic. And this guy's mediums are insanely brilliant. example:

anybody recognize this guy? no? get some art history on ya, for real. This is a famous painter from a completely different decade working on one of his abstradct pieces. Anyway, Vic Muniz made this picture of the famous picture of the famous artist... out of syrup. Look closer? see it? yeah... he's a tough cookie. I wouldn't mess with him. I've tried to draw pictures in salt before and have failed richly.
which brings me to my next part of Vic's work. The sugar children.

Those are both drawn in sugar. But look at the attention he pays to detail, the raised print of the girls vest, and the ripples in the boy's t-shirt. That's hard to do man!

But the rest of it is just garbage. Real talk.

The Sherm

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director that we studied in class and I think she's crazy. But she does good work! Her concepts are intense (which is why I say she's crazy- as in the way her mind works around themes in her art are not something just anyone can flop down and do). But I really really like her early work, her play on classic woman roles in film.

such as:

these are my favorites :)

The Daguerreotype

His name was Louis Daguerre and he was a little full of himself. He was working against time, and plenty of other competitors to develope a good modification of the heliograpgh. He had help from mr. heliograph himself Joseph Niepce, and with the two together came the first "camera". The fun thing is that this new machine, although still a bunch bigger than our cameras today, used the combined process of the camera obscura and the chemical logics of the heliograph. It was wonderful and he got paid big francs for it. Here are some examples, as the Daguerreotype was a common source of photographs for years.