ANALYSIS: BRUNO MUNARI

When choosing who’s work to document, I was drawn to the work of Bruno Munari because of the way in which he will take inanimate objects and give them almost a personality. For example his project based around fingers and the human figure, was documented and created across many different artistic platforms, whether it were photographing the bent forks, or then screen printing designs which showed the forks as hands. A lot of his work has a very social approach, in the way in which it connotes and documents the interaction between two objects in the same way two people would. His work also concentrated on a lot of different surrealism ideas and theories, in the way in which we are challenged to look at different perspectives that are warped, whether this was sculptures built by him, or whether he would photograph the reflections on spoons and other warped surfaces. His graphics have become distinctive in the way in which like many post modernism artists, he used block colours and shapes to build his designs. For example, his designs of the flamingos are basic, and yet accompanied by a specific text, they suddenly have an a lot more in depth meaning.