Examples of ready-made in the following topics:
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- Constructed sculpture can be made out of any object or material, and combined with any other object or material to create the sculptural form.
- Marcel Duchamp is thought to have perfected the concept several years later when he made a series of ready-mades, consisting of completely unaltered everyday objects selected by Duchamp and designated as art.
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- Marcel Duchamp was a dominant member of the Dadaist movement, known for exhibiting "ready-mades," which were objects that were purchased or found and then declared art.
- Marcel Duchamp's Urinal is an example of a "ready-made," which were objects that were purchased or found and then declared art.
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- The French artist Marcel Duchamp paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works, the ready-mades, for instance.
- The most famous of Duchamp's ready-mades was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym "R.Mutt" and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York (it was rejected).
- In traditional terms, a commonplace object such as a urinal cannot be said to be art because it is not made by an artist or with any intention of being art, nor is it unique or handcrafted.
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- There is now a trend toward careful staging and lighting to create a desired photograph, rather than hoping to discover it ready-made.
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- Beginning around 1963, the term "snapshot aesthetic" made its way into the vocabulary of the fine art photography world.
- There have been illustrative photographs made since the medium's invention, however, the term Conceptual Photography derives from Conceptual Art, a movement of the late 1960s.
- In contemporary photography, there is now a trend of carefully staging and lighting a picture, rather than hoping to "discover" it ready-made.
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- 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).
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- Fiber arts, in particular, refer to objects made with these fibers; they focus on the materials and the manual labor of the artist, and tend to prioritize aesthetic value over utility.
- In order for the fiber to be made into cloth, it must be spun into a strand.
- When the yarn is ready and dyed for use it can be made into cloth in a number of ways.
- Most art and commercial textiles are made by this process.
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- Objects such as mirrors and cistae were engraved or incised with rich imagery made noticeable by a white substance inserted into the outlines and contour lines.
- Finally, the sculpture is polished and ready for display.
- The figure is well modeled and expressive—from its tense muscles, ready pose, and roaring face of the lion and goat.
- The cistae were small boxes with lids, much like a pyxis, that was made from bronze and was usually cylindrical.
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- Instead of appearing victorious over a foe, David's face looks tense and ready for combat.
- Although a number of figures were made more modest with the addition of drapery, the changes were not made until after the death of Michelangelo, demonstrating the respect and admiration that was afforded to him during his lifetime.
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- Accounts and a few coins of the statue allow us today to conclude the bronze statue portrayed a fearsome image of Athena striding forward, helmeted, her shield at her side and her spear raised high, ready to strike.