Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes pays homage to Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters — Cézanne, Sorolla, Van Gogh, Vuillard — through works constructed from individual paint strokes photographed, cut out, and arranged into compositions that recreate the originals. Each stroke had to be precisely lit and positioned to match the directional light of the source painting, producing a rich syntax of color that conveys dimensionality while cohering into landscapes, still lifes, and figures. By deconstructing painting to its most fundamental unit and reconstructing it through photography, Muniz foregrounds the brushstroke as simultaneously autonomous gesture and constituent part of a larger whole.
