during the life of this blog i have found numerous rusty
objects whilst walking along beaches, country footpaths and even city streets
i have photographed
many of them in situ but others i
have taken out of their found environment (my garden is filling up with rusty
bits and pieces, sorry, sculptures) and photographed them somewhere else
these are my objets
trouves - objects which have not been designed for an artistic purpose, but
which already exist for another purpose, the idea was first perfected by Marcel Duchamp (after Picasso) who used undisguised
objects that are not normally considered art materials - the most famous
example is ‘Fountain’ (1917), a
standard urinal purchased from a hardware store and displayed on a pedestal,
resting on its side
the use of found objects was quickly taken up by the Dada and
Surrealist movements – the Surrealist leader, André Breton, defined objets trouves as "manufactured
objects raised to the dignity of works of art through the choice of the
artist" – continuing the tradition i have also given my photographs slightly
surreal titles
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