Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Pieces of the day

While browsing the web today for new artists and their work, I was struck by several pieces, and wanted to share them. It's so inspiring to see what other people are doing, and it always seems to leave me feeling very happy. I could do it for hours. In this particular search today, I was interested in artists who deal with "found art, " in any sense of the term.


“Blue River” By John Dahlsen. Medium: Recycled plastic bags behind perspex


Title: Driftwood Assemblage # 1(Diptych), also by John Dahlsen. Medium: Found objects (driftwood) on plywood






"Coffee" by Rosa Murillo. This piece was done by the artist, then left taped to a park bench for someone to find. A note was attatched saying that it needed to be set free, and was meant to be kept. http://rosamurillo.squarespace.com/rosa-murillo-journal/2006/10/17/found-art-tuesdays-oct-17-06-coffee.html




"In the Garden" by Barbara Irwin. Barbara creates assemblages out of found items. They have a very sculptural feel to them. This one pictured above was my favorite. http://foundobjectart.com/



Glacial erratics: landscape found art (and origins of cubism), by Edward Tufte. This artist finds art in Rocks. I love the concept. He wrote: "Helping to build a road today, I threw a rock (about 0.4 cubic feet in volume) into the road bed. The end of the rock shattered and revealed the ultimate source of Cubism. "Fractured planes" is a good short description of Cubism.
Today's fractured rock is on the left; Braque's Rio Tinto Factories at L'Estaque, 1910, at right." http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001Jt


2 comments:

Artwork by KD said...

These are beautiful pieces! Do you search blogs? And thank you so much for the wonderful comment about my GREEN Earring...It's great to hear people respond to what you're doing....

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