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.

• Modern Management

  • Factories became an assemblage of unskilled laborers performing simple and repetitive tasks under the direction of skilled foremen and engineers.

• Environmental Diversity of Microbes

  • For instance, the assemblage of microbes that exists on the surface of seawater is thought to have undergone tremendous change with respect to composition, abundance, diversity, and virulence as a result of climate-driving sea surface warming.

• Biogeography and the Distribution of Species

  • Some of the most distinctive assemblages of plants and animals occur in regions that have been physically separated for millions of years by geographic barriers.

• 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.

• The Bonus Army

  • The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

• 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).

• Biogeography

  • Some of the most distinctive assemblages of plants and animals occur in regions that have been physically separated for millions of years by geographic barriers.