Artist Vik Muniz Displays Humor In High Museum Retrospective

The Mona Lisa rendered in peanut butter and jelly … Medusa drawn with spaghetti and marinara sauce … portraits constructed from tons of garbage … The works of artist Vik Muniz display a sense of humor at work that tends to take serious matters lightly and light matters very seriously.

“Humor is something I take very seriously,” he says, “because it can be a really powerful strategy to make people think about what they’re looking at.”