assemblage

Examples of assemblage in the following topics:

• Assemblage

  • Assemblage is the practice of creating two-dimensional or three-dimensional artistic compositions by combining and manipulating found objects.
  • Assemblage is an artistic process whereby two or three dimensional artistic compositions are created by combining found objects.
  • The most recognizable assemblage pieces from this period are the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, such as Fountain, 1917.
  • In 1961, the exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" was featured at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
  • Of the assemblage artists in this period, Robert Rauschenberg is a significant proponent.

• Construction

  • Construction, also known as 'assemblage', and sometimes a 'combine', is an artistic process that uses found, manufactured or altered objects to build sculptural forms.
  • The practice of assemblage or construction as sculpture has been employed by many prominent artists including Braque, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Mann Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg.
  • The origin of the word in its artistic sense can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes.

• Chance, Improvisation, and Spontaneity

  • Dadaists used what was readily available to create what was termed an "assemblage," using items such as photographs, trash, stickers, bus passes, and notes.

• Painting

  • Other modern movements cited as influential to postmodern art are conceptual art and the use of techniques such as assemblage, montage, bricolage, and appropriation.

• Primitivism and Cubism

  • The ready-made arose from a joint consideration that the work itself is considered an object (just as a painting), and that it uses the material detritus of the world (as collage and paper mache in the Cubist construction and Assemblage).

• Dada and Surrealism

  • Another variation on collage used by Dadaists was assemblage, the assembly of everyday objects to produce meaningful or meaningless pieces of work, including war objects and trash.

• Painting

  • Joseph Cornell, inspired by Surrealism, created boxed assemblages incorporating found objects and collage.

• Abstract Sculpture

  • Duchamp experimented a great deal with sculpture, creating readymades, assemblages and kinetic works.

• Contemporary African Art

  • He has drawn particular international attention in recent years for his iconic "bottle-top installations", distinctive large-scale assemblages of thousands of pieces of aluminium sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with copper wire, transformed into metallic cloth-like wall sculptures in a way that links the themes of consumerism, waste, and the environment.