Sentences with phrase «objet trouves»

Collector of objet trouves that then get merged into his own artistic practice, he becomes curator of giant displays of obscure religious iconography as well as of found amateur paintings.

Beautifully decorated with antiques, artwork, objets trouve.

If one excludes the controversial claim that the 3 million year old Makapansgat Pebble (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) represents the world's oldest piece of junk art (in this case an objet trouve or «found object», chosen for its resemblance to a human skull), the first junk artist was Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968).

Rather than focusing on non-figurative subject matter, it concentrated on materials, hence the emergence of Assemblage Art - a form of three - dimensional visual art made from everyday objects, said to be «found» by the artist (objets trouves).

20th Century painters have experimented with a huge range of supports and materials, including steel, concrete, polyester, neon lights, as well as an endless variety of «found» objects (objets trouves).

Horrifically timely in light of the escalating violence and doomed gun debate facing our country at the moment, these loaded metaphors hit upon our inherent attraction and repulsion to such artifacts, isolating them in the aesthetic frame of the objet trouve.