Sentences with phrase «other junk art»

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In the meantime, while I'm waiting for good weather so I can get outside and work, I've been working on my art journal with a new calendar page for each month, along with lots of other fun «junk» that I collect for journaling.

His practice includes film pieces as well as work made by combining common junk parts with audio and other components and programming them, in order to produce art that expresses technology's primitive possibilities.

Besides, we have all this other junk lying around, and we promised yet another selection of contemporary art — our fourth now since we built this stupid tower.»

These artists treated the urban landscape and its byproducts — what others might call «junk» — as materials for art.

The range of objects and other contemporary junk materials employed within the genre is well illustrated in the works of Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86), such as Eurasia Siberian Symphony (1963, panel, chalk drawing, felt, fat, hare, painted pole, Museum of Modern Art NYC); Ed Kienholz (1927 - 94), such as Back Seat Dodge»38 (1964, truncated Dodge automobile, resin, paint, fiberglass, clothing, chicken wire, beer bottles, plaster, Los Angeles County Museum of Art); Niki de Saint - Phalle (1930 - 2002), such as her Monster of Soisy (1963, paint, various objects, metal frame, George Pompidou Centre); Marisol (b. 1930), such as her Woman and Dog (1964, wood, plaster, synthetic polymer, taxidermied dog head, and miscellaneous items, Whitney Museum of American Art).

Another pioneer junk artist was the Hanover Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948), whose unique contribution to modern art was his «Merzbau» - an intricate mixed - media sculpture made from paper, cardboard and other rubbish, that meandered through his house, eventually filling it completely.

Other notable junk artists included the Indiana - born sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), whose works included Untitled (1964, painted steel with chrome, Nice Museum of Modern Art), Untitled (1968, sheet metal, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) and Koko - Nor II (1967, Tate Collection London); the English photographer and sculptor Joseph Goto (1916 - 94); the American Richard Stankiewicz (1923 - 83), noted for his witty Middle Aged Couple (1954, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); and the sculptor and film - maker Bruce Conner (1933 - 2008), noted for his spooky constructions made from broken dolls and old stockings.

It was also around this time that the Russian - American experimental sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988) began producing her famous assemblages known as «sculptured walls», and only a few years since Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) had begun his own form of junk art which had an important impact on junk sculpture practised by Arman and others.

Other examples of the Neo-Dadaist-style «junk art» include Hudson River Landscape (1951, Whitney Museum of American Art) and Australia (1951, MoMA, NY), both by David Smith (1906 - 1965); Untitled (wood, metal pieces, nails)(1960, Museum of Modern Art NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, Nart» include Hudson River Landscape (1951, Whitney Museum of American Art) and Australia (1951, MoMA, NY), both by David Smith (1906 - 1965); Untitled (wood, metal pieces, nails)(1960, Museum of Modern Art NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, NArt) and Australia (1951, MoMA, NY), both by David Smith (1906 - 1965); Untitled (wood, metal pieces, nails)(1960, Museum of Modern Art NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, NArt NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, NY).

As it was the group saw themselves as something of a hybrid: on the one hand, they related both to the performance art and Schwitters - style junk art of Dada and its later offspring Neo-Dada, as well as contemporary kinetic art; on the other hand, they saw themselves as forging a brand new type of multi-media postmodernist art, capable of reflecting the transformation in French popular culture.

• Arman (1928 - 2005) French - American sculptor and a former close friend of Yves Klein, he is best known for his contemporary assemblage art, made from household debris, car - parts and other junk.

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

In these works, Rauschenberg mixes items found in alleys, on the streets, or in junk stores with paint and other materials of art making.

Mail, packages to return, books, art supplies, Legos, random chachkies, pens, magazines we keep meaning to read but never get to, small tools, boxes of photographs as well as photos without frames, mystery keys and screws, the digital camera & accessories, and other junk clutter the space terribly.