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Gmail - Recycled art
What Is Recycled Art? We all have trash. Think of everything you do during the day that generates empty boxes, bottles, plastic wrap and other things you throw away. But did you know you can use such stuff to make art? Recycled art is creative work that's made from discarded materials that once had another purpose. This includes anything from old plastic toys and vehicle tires to scraps of cloth and building supplies. Artists who make recycled art take those materials and make them into something new. You might sometimes see it called 'junk art,' but that term is a bit limiting. Something that is being recycled isn't necessarily junk. At its heart, recycled art is about repurposing and reusing materials. There's no limit to what kinds of materials can be used. Recycled art can be large or small. It can be two dimensional or three dimensional. But what's the history of recycled art?
History of Recycled Art The idea of reusing old materials to make art isn't new. Early American settlers used bits of fabric from flour
Bicycle sculpture made from tin cans and sheet metal
sacks and old clothing to make patchwork quilts. During World War I, soldiers in the trenches sometimes took spent artillery shells and carved images on them to make artwork. In both cases, people used available scraps from objects that had served another purpose to create new, original works of art.
Recycled Art: Early 20th Century The early 20th century was pivotal in the development of recycled art. Around 1912, artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) invented a process called collage, where he pasted together bits of paper, photos, newsprints and small objects to form a new image. Picasso also made sculptures from bits of wood and other scavenged materials. Examples of trench art from World War I
A few years later, artist Marcel
Duchamp (1887-1968) used found objects to create art. Found objects are objects made for other purposes that find their way into art. Duchamp was part of an art movement called Dada that emerged in reaction to the horrors of World War I. Dada confronted the viewer's expectations and challenged ideas about art. Duchamp used bicycle tires, wooden furniture and even a ceramic urinal from a bathroom in his sculptures. Sometimes he merged them together, but in the case of the urinal, he signed a name to it and exhibited it as it was. He chose mass-produced objects, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=d459d1620f&jsver=k8XTJOJ1kuE.en.&cbl=gmail_fe_180606.07_p4&view=pt&search=inbox&th=163d8‌
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