Chapter 6

Food and ShelterArt is used to store, serve and enjoy food.Structures are built to provide shelter and to enhance and enrich lives.

Survival

FOODFOODSecuring the Food SupplySecuring the Food SupplyIn 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.

Storing and serving food

Storing and Storing and Serving FoodServing FoodWater is essential and over time people have developed inventive systems for storing liquids

Food as Culture

Artist: Vik MunizContemporary Brazilian artist

Peanut Butter and JellyMonaLisa

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

Vik Muniz recreates Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper mural with chocolateSyrup.

Vik MunizPortrait of Jackson Pollock,Famous drip painter, recreatedAfter a famous photo of the Artist Muniz uses chocolate syrup

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 MunizGelatin-silver print. 20 x 16". Courtesy Wooster Gardens, New York.

Gnaw, 1992 600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist45 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.

Gnaw, 1992 600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist45 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

Lick & Lather, 1993Two busts: one chocolate and one soap24 X 16 X 13 inches (60.96 X 40.64 X 33.02 cm)

Janine Antoni, Umbilical, 2000Sterling silver cast of family silverware and negative impression of artist's mouth and mother's hand3 X 8 X 3 inches (7.62 X 20.32 X 7.62 cm)

Glorifying Food

Art That Glorifies Art That Glorifies FoodFoodIn 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.

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

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

ShelterShelters 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

Shelter as MemoryKOREAN-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.

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.