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Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959

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Bricolage

  • French term for “tinkering”
  • constructing an artwork from found objects (things that happen to be available)
  • a characteristic of many postmodern works
  • often a variety of assorted objects.
  • an assemblage of objects
  • found materials may be mass-produced or "junk"

Assemblage

  • an artistic process
  • making artistic compositions by putting together found objects
  • origin of the artform from Pablo Picasso (cubist constructions)

Contemporary art

  •  art produced at the present period in time.
  • postmodern art
  • A common concern (for the past 100 years) is the question “What constitutes art?”

Avant-garde

  • French term for "vanguard" a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas. 
  • The artists or art works that are experimental or innovative
  • Pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the “norm” (artistic conventions)
  • Also promotes radical social reforms.

Resources:

http://arthistory.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/3644/Karmel_Beyond_the_Guitar.pdf

To create Guitar Picasso made a radical leap from the sculptural tradition of modeling (carving or molding) to a new technique of assemblage. He created a first version of Guitar from cardboard in 1912, then later remade the work in sheet metal; the modern ordinariness of both of these materials is very different from traditional sculptural materials such as bronze, wood, and marble. The planes of the sheet-metal construction engage in a play of substance and void in which volume is suggested, not depicted. In a dramatic demonstration of the flexible way visual forms can be read in context, the guitar's sound hole, which normally recedes from the instrument's smooth surface, here projects outward into space.

Early visitors to Picasso's studio were bewildered by this work: "What is that?" they asked, according to the poet André Salmon: "Does that rest on a pedestal? Does that hang on the wall? Is it a painting or sculpture?" Apparently, Picasso responded, "It's nothing, it's 'la guitare!'" For Salmon, one of Picasso's closest friends during the Cubist years, the effect was of radical importance: "We were delivered from painting and sculpture, liberated from the imbecilic tyranny of genres." With its center open to space, Picasso's Guitar was a radical breakthrough.

Source:  http://www.pablopicasso.org/guitar.jsp

Some time in 1912, Picasso cut out and folded a piece of paper in the shape of a guitar; to this he glued and fitted other pieces of paper and four taut strings, thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture plane. The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief. By this act he founded a new tradition and genre of sculpture, the one that came to be called "construction."

source:  Clement Greenburg

http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/collage.html

“Picasso continued to work in collage, incorporating wallpaper, cut pieces of canvas, newsprint, lettering and other materials into his compositions. His innovative constructions in wood and sheet iron, painted and wall-mounted, combine the qualities of painting and sculpture. Dispensing with the time-honoured methods of carving or modelling, this was an entirely new way of creating sculpture.”

source: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/picasso/room-by-room/cubism-collage-constructions/