Laurel Sparks works on traditional canvas, but in addition to
painting she is using assemblage while letting the material fulfill its duties to communicate with the entire composition.
Not exact matches
Linda Cross» Unearth, 1988,
is a large relief that appears to
be an
assemblage of metal trash, but
is in fact hand - made by the artist
using paper maché, styrofoam, and
paint.
As Thierry de Duve has shown, much of Duchamp's work — including his abandonment of
painting — followed from the recognition that the can or tube of
paint had long
been a readymade, industrially produced commodity like any other.10 As Duchamp remarked in 1961, specifically addressing Rauschenberg among others: «Since the tubes of
paint used by the artist
are manufactured and readymade products, we must conclude that all the
paintings in the world
are «Readymades aided» — and also works of
assemblage.»
Using commercially available materials such as chicken wire, polystyrene, a stucco foam agent called Parex,
paint, and found objects, she makes
assemblages that
are humorous and bold.
Ironically, one of the reasons that Mallary discontinued his
assemblage sculptures and relief panels
was that the experimental materials he
was using started to have an adverse effect on his health; in 1964 he wrote an article for ARTNews warning artists of the dangers of working with resins, polymers and industrial
paints.
Zander Blom
is a Johannesburg - based artist who
uses painting, drawing,
assemblage sculpture and...
The brilliance of Untitled [black
painting with portal form]
is that one can simultaneously appreciate the artist's complex handling of
paint across an array of uneven surfaces while acknowledging the ways that the artwork, in its
use of newspaper as a formal and almost sculptural element, bridges
painting, collage, and
assemblage.
Throughout the 20th - century, as part of the modernist revolt against the
use of traditional materials in fine art and the consequent desire to demonstrate that «art» can
be made out of anything, artists have
been creating sculpture,
assemblage, combined
paintings / sculptures and installations from an ever - widening range of unusual objects and materials.
The five artists in the first session, which began January 3 and lasts until February 12,
are Carrie Beckmann, a watercolorist who
paints directly from nature and can normally
be found working in the Conservatory; Danielle Durchslag, who
is using cut and layered paper to represent Wave Hill
's natural surroundings; Sabrina Gschwandtner, who has covered her studio floor with 16mm - film strips (some found stock and some she
's shot at Wave Hill) that will
be sewn together to create illuminated quilts; Nick Lamia, who
is experimenting with plein - air drawings as a source for multi-dimensional abstractions; and Adam Parker Smith, who has
been busily
painting colorful, wall - sized
assemblages of plants and flowers based on observations at Wave Hill.
Affirming the ludist explorations of the artistic process, Appel
was become famous by
painting and sculpting in the technique of
assemblage, as well as by extensive
use of primary colors white, red, yellow, blue and black.
Even though Burri
was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted
paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and
assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its
use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting of form).
«Found objects» have
been used in many different types of art, including
painting, various forms of sculpture, including
assemblage and installations.
The image represents a mock up of a magazine cover and can
be seen as a bold feminist comment on the sexualization of the female body on magazine covers, referencing many of the elements
used in the artist's 30 year career - throwaway objects, mannequins, material debris,
assemblage,
painting, photography and her distinctive irreverent approach to sculpture and materiality.
These
were a mixture of
painting with collage and
assemblage using all kinds of found materials, ranging from torn pages from newspapers and magazines to junk gathered in the street — the debris of the city, as it has
been called.