Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza by Nancy G. Heller

Author:Nancy G. Heller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

In addition to elephant dung, cow’s heads, broken plates, and hard candies, in recent years artists have worked with a staggering array of other materials. For example, America’s “bad boy” of sculpture, Jeff Koons, has made several forty-foot-tall puppies entirely out of living flowers (they are supported by an invisible metal grid and kept alive via an ingenious set of hidden water sprinklers); and the same Janine Antoni who painted using her hair as a brush (plate 41) also gnawed into shape several self-portrait busts made of chocolate. A kindred spirit, Vik Muniz, is known for his portraits of celebrated figures from various fields (Jackson Pollock, Sigmund Freud, Charles Baudelaire) made out of chocolate syrup. However, the growing affinity of professional visual artists for working with foodstuffs extends well beyond candy. Recent examples have included works featuring ketchup (Paul McCarthy), peanut butter and jelly (Rafael Sánchez), and miniature custard-filled cream puffs (Adriana Kulczycky).

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