1. Give at least one idea about what each film says about art and the artist
Wasted land movie is about an artist Vic muniz who went to Jardim Gramacho at Brazil. The world’s largest garbage dump to help the people there and inspire them through his talent and life’s experience. There he photographs the pickers of recyclable materials, He’s initial objective was to paint them with garbage. However the art in this film was his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage.
Vic Muniz transforms our understanding of image-making by using photographic representation and unexpected materials such quotidian objects and garbage in his work to create a bold, ironic imagery,
Exit through the gift shop is a film by street artist Banksy that tells the story of Thierry Guetta, who has a strange obsession with carrying a camera everywhere and his obsession with street art. The art in this film was called Street art. All the artists here create a visual art in public locations using Graffiti, poster art or sticker art and street installation or sculpture.
Banksy, Theirry, Invader, Shepard are street artists that often travel between countries to spread their designs. Usually artists who choose the streets as their gallery are often doing so to communicate directly with the public to present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value to attract attention. Banksy, theirry, Invader and shepard are all street artists that often work in studios that hold gallery exhibition. They are not anti-art; they simply enjoy the freedom of working in public without having to worry about what other people think.
2. Do you agree with these ideas? Why and why not?
Yes, I agree with these ideas. Art is not just drawing or painting that people buy and display to their house but art has a wide definition and scope that need not to be famous just to call it art. But simply to express our