Meanwhile, his bronze Insects (cast from his earlier
1950s iron sculptures) stand as sculptural counterparts to Bernard Buffet's Le Coq Rouge (1959), which depicts a rooster in the artist's recognizably brutalist style.
The artistic career of Tinguely evolved from his «ready made»
sculptures of the early
1950s, to the first motor - driven scrap -
iron works, called Méta - mécaniques, to more complex moving and noise - making metal
sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, up to his large scale, monumental mechanical artworks of the»80s,