Found Object Art

In the second half of the twentieth century, artistic movements made pushes in order to move beyond the traditional gallery space, changing the terrain of displaying and making art. An artist’s body of work no longer needed to reside inside of a gallery or art collection, and artists became free to explore other ways of creating and displaying work. In this vein, Andy Goldsworthy works sculpturally with natural media, and leaves the sculptures within a particular environment, often expecting his work to decay quickly. Many times, the only evidence of any art he makes is the photographs taken during the process. By more traditional standards, art of this nature is entirely contradictory. What is the point of pieces of visual art that cannot

As the popular art subjects become more and more used up, artists search for other ways to express antiquated ideas. They begin carving and painting roses onto vases. ("renews/ itself in metal or porcelain" (line 8)) Ironically, while this new format originated from the overuse of the subject, this simple overuse also opened a gateway for more

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but maybe they are worth far more than that. Pictures, although seemingly simple in nature, are extremely complex. Far too often, people overlook what a picture truly is. When a person looks at an image, they most likely see only the image, nothing else. Many people do not look deep enough into an image to fully comprehend the true meaning of it. However, when an individual begins to truly study an image in an attempt to understand the true complexity of it, they will be surprised at what they overlooked before. As stated by French Realist Painter, Gustave Courbet, “Fine art is knowledge made visible.”

Contemporary art has a long history of appropriating material into new work such as Duchamp’s ready-mades where he recontexualizes found source material, the photo collages of Hannah Hoch and today’s remix culture. In Remixthebook, Mark Amerika (2011) argues that in Postproduction art, “the artist takes what has already been produced in culture and, through creative postproduction means, expresses a new cultural configuration that both speaks to contemporary culture as well as the source material that has been remixed”. Traditional crafts such as patchwork and quilt making have also contained ideas of transformation of old collected materials into new forms. By the frugally collecting and repurposing of these waste materials, Gower critiques

Andy Warhol was born August 6th 1928, in Forest City, Pennsylvania. His family comes from the Austria-Hungary Empire. His father came over from there in 1912 and then sent for his mother to come over here in 1921.

Many times people have used discarded items for their art. Patchwork quilts are created from scraps, rags, and remnants that a person finds in the trash. Quilters then combine the trash to make a new, beautiful pattern. In New York, some artists created a sculpture garden and performance space out of a gas station. They turn abandoned cars and other urban debris into a community work of art that continues to grow. (Miller 3) Famous artist Pablo Picasso collected all kinds of discarded items he found and created sculptures. One of his most famous sculptures was Bull’s Head. Bull’s Head created in 1942, is made from a bicycle seat and handlebars cast in bronze. (Miller 5) Art can be created from discarded items and possibly even nature.

Andrew Goodman was born on November 23, 1943 in New York City. He was one of three sons in a liberal Jewish household. Andy became involved in social and political activism at an early age. He attended a private high school in New York, the Walden School, and then went on to attend Queens College.

Late on Wednesday night, my phone ringed. It was a text message from my friend Pedro, “Do you want to visit an art museum tomorrow”. Knowing I needed to go, I texted him back quickly, “pick me up after your class tomorrow and we can adventure to The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro”. After Pedro’s class, we explored the museum observing multiple art works, and I was invoked by three, art pieces. All three were different and intriguing in their own way. For instance, the painting that is on top of the cover page with all the wavy hair was painted by Catherine Murphy and is known as the “Frosted”. This painting was very delightful because of its unique elements. Second, the sculpture in the middle of the cover page is an image of a wooded animal. This sculpture was crafted by Deborah Butterfield and is recognized as Lunalilo. Also, at the bottom of the cover page is a sculpture constructed by Dan Graham, the sculpture was known as Triangle Solid with

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Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. His parents were Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Supposedly, van Gogh’s influence toward the arts was said to be derived from his mother, who was a moody artist who loved nature, drawing, and water color. While growing up, Van Gogh’s family struggled financially, so he quit school at the age of 15 to work and his

Authors’ manipulation of text type and their choice of language firmly enables an understanding of the relationship between both people and landscapes, with composers’ representations of these ideas being particularly significant. Alain de Botton’s multi-modal non-fiction text, The Art of Travel, allows his audience to be guided –as a new type of travel guide– through his philosophical notions on the inborn and vitalising relationship between people and landscapes, often leading to us uncover new truths. Whilst his use of both descriptive language and intertextuality allows his audience to even more fully appreciate this multidimensional relationship, often presented in a refreshing and thought-provoking light. Similarly, Tim Winton’s memoir

1945- Warhol graduates from Schenley High School and applies for Carnegie Institute of Technology. During the summer he worked as a window dresser for a local department store.

Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His parents were Julia and Ondrej Warhola and was the youngest of three boys. Warhol became ill with St. Vitus' disease when he was younger, which is a complication of scarlet fever.

     Andrew Warhola’s (he later dropped the “a”) birth date is uncertain, Andy said himself that his birth certificate had been forged and June 6, 1928 became the date taken as his birthday. Others say he was born December 6, 1930 and then others say it was August 6, 1928. Andy was very mysterious about his private life and was said to be in another world most of the time. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents, Ondrej and Julia Warhola were working-class immigrants from Eastern Europe, his

Artworks are those that use natural tools in an aesthetically pleasing way, to express some deep meanings desired by the artist, for which this art is found. These works can be analyzed by looking at a variety of aspects individually and these elements are often called elements They are very useful for criticizing or understanding any artwork as a whole. The materials used by the artist creating the artwork in the documentary "Mystery Masterpiece", the shape of the work is the shape of which it is, including its size or its volumetric perception, and the artwork has three dimensions; the depth as well as the width and height, the three-dimensional form is the basis of sculpture, yet the two-dimensional artwork can achieve the illusion of the