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Subject: [Leica] Monday Misc.
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:10:18 +0100
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Oops, got the name wrong. The guy I was thinking of is Vic Muniz - a 
Brazilian artist turned photographer. I saw his stuff - a beans and 
coffee portrait of Che Guevara - at a Sotheby's auction in Paris and I 
thought it was excellent. Unfortunately, too excellent for my wallet at 
the time.

Douglas


On 22/06/2022 23:55, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Oscar Munoz? Was he the guy who made faces out of common things like 
> baked beans, chocolate, etc and then photographed the results? 
> Interesting all the same.
> Douglas
>
>
> On 20/06/2022 11:14, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
>> Greetings to all.? We recently visited the Universities museum to see an
>> exhibit of Oscar Munoz's works.? He is a Venezualen artist who was
>> fascinated in motion, existential life of art, impermanence among many
>> other interests.? We begin with my standard patreons not looking at 
>> the art:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/studying+the+book+instead+of+the+art.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> This was a multi screen drawing session where the art appeared then
>> disappeared:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/visualizing+the+artwork+as+the+artist+intended.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> Interesting voyeurism, painting folks in the shower on shower curtains:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/shower+curtains.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> I am not sure this resonates with others, but I was moved by the figure
>> moving into the dark:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Oscar+Munoz+mystery+in+motion.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> Pure whimsy, using a cigarette to burn holes in paper to depict 
>> cigarette
>> smokers:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/rendering+cigarette+smoking+with+a+lit+cigarette.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> Moving into the permanent exhibits, this is the best I have taken of 
>> this
>> piece of cowbones above and pennies below with a figure:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/veiled+cowbones+and+pennies.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>> All the best.
>>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Monday Misc.)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Monday Misc.)