Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist currently working out of New York.
Muniz is well known for his broad range of experimental works. While he started his career as a sculptor, his practice today is almost entirely photo-based — creating works but then photographing them.
Muniz’s interest in human visual understanding is the running theme behind the majority of his work, of which a photograph called Key, from Earthworks is a perfect example. The "Earthworks" series also includes images of electrical outlets, tobacco pipes, footprints, scissors, dice, paper airplanes, envelopes, and coat hangers. The juxtaposition of intimate, inanimate objects and the living, changing landscape renders this photographic series truly striking.
Muniz's innovative and shifting methods of visual communication are what constantly earn him recognition and admiration internationally. He frequently destabilizes the conventions of the art history canon by revisiting or appropriating conventions and icons but realizing them in unconventional materials and creative strategies.
Muniz's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name a few.
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Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz, Bernardaud
Located in Soquel, CA
Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz Every year since 1988, technology entrepreneur and avid collector Peter Norton commissioned an artist to create an origina...
Porcelain
$500 / set
H 1 in Dm 11.5 in
John Glick Signed Set of 5 Plates Modernist Stoneware Glazed Ceramics Plum Tree
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist stoneware glazed ceramic set of 5 plates by Detroit artist John Glick of Plum Tree Pottery. Circa late 20th century. Glazed in earthtones. Artisisnal yet functional and m...
Ceramic, Pottery
Astronomici n.1 Decorative Plate by Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
This hand-decorated porcelain plate is adorned with exquisite zodiac designs, making this a true collector's item. Any minor discrepancies are the result of craftsmanship and attest ...
Porcelain
Fruit Salad Plates Design by Giovanna Amoruso Manzari for Limoges France
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Giovanna Amoruso Manzari hand painted partial table service for Limoges, decorated with fruit, flowers, and butterflies. Measure 8.66 inches / 22 cm * Request info for flatware pric...
Ceramic
$1,920Sale Price / set|32% Off
H 0.79 in W 15.16 in D 12.01 in
Limoges Bernardaud 62 Pieces Fine Faience Dinner Service
By Bernardaud
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Exquisite fine cream faience tableware set adorned with scattered roses and gold trim. The set consists of 62 pieces and would be ideal for casual dining, or would make an eyecatchin...
Faience, Paint
$3,600 / set
H 0.5 in Dm 9 in
Set of 10 Foley 19th Century Arts & Crafts Dessert Plates with Shaped Rim
By Foley China
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is a set of ten Foley China, England dessert plates with an unusual and distinctive Arts and Crafts pattern that takes your breath away. The striking combination of colors in co...
Porcelain
Six dinner plates by Richrd Ginori with a design by Gio Ponti
By Gio Ponti, Richard Ginori
Located in Asti, Piemonte
Six dinner plates by Richrd Ginori with a design by Gio Ponti, 1935. Biography Architect, designer and artist, Gio Ponti (Milan 1891-1979) graduated in Milan in 1921 and initially a...
Porcelain
$5,500 / set
H 1 in Dm 10.75 in
Set of 13 Minton Dinner Plates Soft Blue Green Raised Paste Gold Leaf Pattern
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 13 Minton dinner plates feature the iconic "Eau de Nils" enamel border which is a soft blue green, described as the "wat...
Porcelain
$4,800 / set
H 0.75 in Dm 10.75 in
12 Lamm Dresden Arts & Crafts Raised Paste Gold & Cream Dinner Service Plates
By Ambrosius Lamm, Dresden Porcelain
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 12 dinner plates are made by the iconic Ambrosius Lamm Dresden in a rare Arts & Crafts style decoration featuring a clear white cent...
Porcelain
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré Large Plate or Charger
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze large plate or charger By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) New York, USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 14"W x 14"D...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré Plate
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze plate By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) New York, USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 7.75"W x 7.75"D x 0.5"H. Go...
Bronze
$1,633 / set
H 0.79 in Dm 9.45 in
20thC Set Of Four "Recipe" Plates By Fornasetti, Commissioned By Fiat c.1950
By Piero Fornasetti, Fiat, Fornasetti
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A charming and rare set of four porcelain plates, created by Piero Fornasetti in the 1950s, specially commissioned by Fiat to celebrate the culinary and cultural traditions of Turin....
Porcelain
$698 / item
H 2.5 in Dm 8.66 in
Fruit Salad Plates Design by Giovanna Amoruso Manzari for Limoges France
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Giovanna Amoruso Manzari hand painted partial table service for Limoges, decorated with fruit, flowers, and butterflies. Measure 8.66 inches / 22 cm * Request info for flatware pr...
Ceramic