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In the Studio Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain Vik Muniz works: a taster

All images courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery

  • Recreating Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers in magazine collage
  • Drawing clouds over Manhattan with the smoke trails from a plane
  • Making art out of an unfinished plate of spaghetti
  • In case you ever wondered what Sigmund Freud would look like in chocolate
  • A recreation of J.B.C. Corot's Le Songeur (The Dreamer) from 1854 using 16,200 yards of yarn
  • The back of the Mona Lisa. Can you spot the sign that says this way up in French?
  • Making giant pictures with bulldozers that are then photographed from helicopters
  • A castle on a grain of sand
  • Torn strips of coloured paper but some are real and others are photographed. Can you spot the illusions?

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  • In the Studio—Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain

    Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion

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