How do food and shelter play into the art world?

1. Chapter 6
Food and Shelter
Art is used to store, serve and enjoy food.
Structures are built to provide shelter and
to enhance and enrich lives.

2. Survival
FOODFOOD
Securing the Food SupplySecuring the Food Supply
In Prehistoric cultures, hunters,
gatherers, and early farmers linked
art and ritual to accomplish tasks like
bringing rain.
This is “sympathetic magic”.
Food, art, and ritual.
phenomenon that links
food, art and ritual.

3. Storing and serving food
Storing andStoring and
Serving FoodServing Food
Water is essential
and over time people
have developed
inventive systems for
storing liquids

4. Food as Culture
Artist: Vik Muniz
Contemporary
Brazilian artist
Peanut Butter and
Jelly
Mona
Lisa

5. Vik Muniz
• Muniz questions the nature
and traditions of visual
representation by
ingeniously using unlikely
materials to "draw" the
subjects of his conventional
gelatin-silver prints. He
begins by making a
Polaroid photograph. Using
the Polaroid as a reference,
he draws its subject in
chocolate syrup, dirt, or
sugar, and photographs the
result.
• Portrait of Che Guevara,
beans

6. Vik Muniz recreates Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper mural with chocolate
Syrup.

8. Vik Muniz
Portrait of Jackson Pollock,
Famous drip painter, recreated
After a famous photo of the
Artist
Muniz uses chocolate syrup

9. His "Sugar Children" series consists of
photographs of drawings he made in sugar
of children whose parents and
grandparents have worked on the sugar
plantation on the island of Saint Kitts. Our
habitual responses are short-circuited by
these unusual portraits.
Valentine, The Fastest. From "The Sugar
Children Series." 1996. Vik Muniz
Gelatin-silver print. 20 x 16". Courtesy
Wooster Gardens, New York.

10. Gnaw, 1992
600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist
45 heart-shaped packages for chocolate made from chewed chocolate
removed from the chocolate cube and 400 lipsticks made with pigment,
beeswax and chewed lard removed from the lard cube
Janine Antoni
transformed the act
of eating into an
artistic process.

11. Gnaw, 1992
600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard
gnawed by the artist
45 heart-shaped packages for chocolate
made from chewed chocolate removed
from the chocolate cube and 400 lipsticks
made with pigment, beeswax and chewed
lard removed from the lard cube

12. Lick & Lather, 1993
Two busts: one chocolate and one soap
24 X 16 X 13 inches (60.96 X 40.64 X
33.02 cm)

14. Janine Antoni, Umbilical, 2000
Sterling silver cast of family silverware and
negative impression of artist's mouth and
mother's hand
3 X 8 X 3 inches (7.62 X 20.32 X 7.62 cm)

15. Glorifying Food
Art That GlorifiesArt That Glorifies
FoodFood
In addition to sustaining
us, food is beautiful.
Food’s shapes and
textures are the subject
of many sculptures and
still life paintings, which
reflect cultural or
religious values.

16. Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud’s painting, Pie Counter
deals with food as visual display and as
popular icon, rather than as nutrition for
the body.

17. 6.15, Wayne Thiebaud. Pie Counter, 1963. Oil on canvas, 30" X 36". Photo .
2004 The Whitney Museum of American Art. . Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by
VAGA, New York

18. Shelter
Shelters were done in different styles,
due to:
→the need for protection
→historical necessity
→the availability of materials
→aesthetic choice
→the need to follow precedent
→the desire to imitate a foreign
style
→symbolic importance
→its owner’s beliefs or
aspirations

19. Shelter as Memory
KOREAN-BORN artist
Do Ho Suh
Many of Suh's most famed
sculptures had reimagined his
homes—in translucent fabric or
resin, or as a painstakingly
detailed, oversize dollhouse—
from his childhood in Seoul and
his young adulthood in the
United States.

20. Do Ho Suh explores the varying meanings of space, from the
smallest territory we occupy—our clothing—to our homes and
homelands. Issues of memory, history, displacement, identity and
the body all come into play.