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Gordon Wagner (1915–1987), was a pioneer in American assemblage art, who was known for his bazaar art, painting, poetry and writing. Jeff Wassmann (born 1958), an American-born contemporary artist who works in Australia under the nom de plume of the pioneering German modernist Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841–1898).
Joseph Cornell Untitled (Dieppe) c. 1958, Museum of Modern Art, (New York City).. Cornell's most characteristic art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects. These are simple shadow boxes, usually fronted with a glass pane, in which he arranged eclectic fragments of photographs or Victorian bric-a-brac, in a way that combines the formal austerity of Constructivism with the ...
More images: The Implorer [14] 1898 Bronze 28.3 x 25.5 x 16 Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine More images: The Age of Maturity II [16] 1898 Bronze 61.5 x 85 x 37 Musée Rodin, Paris More images: The Causeuses [16] 1893 to 1896 Plaster 40.6 x 40 x 40 Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève More images: Old Blind Man Singing [16] 1894 ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art More images: The Hand of God [57] 1897 to 1898 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 73.7 x 60.3 x 64.1 More images: The Evil Spirits [58] 1899 Marble National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 71.2 x 75.7 x 59 More images: Man and his Thought [59] 1896 to 1900 Marble National Gallery (Berlin) 77 x 46 More images
Noah S. Purifoy (August 17, 1917 – March 5, 2004) was an African-American visual artist and sculptor, co-founder of the Watts Towers Art Center, and creator of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum. [1]
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor [1] born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. [2]
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". [1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the found object became art.