Found art

The term, found art, or more commonly, found object (French: objet trouv?) describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.

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Found art derives significance from the context into which it is placed, thus blurring the traditional distinction of what is art, and what is not art, and challenges the nature of art.

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Marcel Duchamp coined the term readymade in 1915 to describe his found art. His Fountain, a urinal which he signed with the pseudonym "R. Mutt", shocked the art world in 1917. The piece was rejected when he submitted it to the unjuried 1917 Society of Independent Artists. Bottle Rack is a bottle drying rack signed by Duchamp. (Research by art historian Rhonda Roland Shearer indicates that Duchamp may have fabricated his found objects. Exhaustive research of mundane items like snow shovels and bottle racks in use at the time failed to reveal identical matches. The urinal, upon close inspection, is non-functional. However, there are accounts of Walter Arensberg and Joseph Stella being with Duchamp when he purchased the original Fountain at J. L. Mott Iron Works.)

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Pablo Picasso used found objects as the basis for Baboon and Young.

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Found Magazine, based in Ann Arbor, MI, collects and catalogs found notes, photos, and other interesting items. Music composers use found sound in their compositions. Examples include John Cage, Nicolas Collins, and The Books. Poets, too, create art out of non-literary writing. Cordelia McGuire turned a funeral home classified advertisement into a poem entitled Embalmer by adding line breaks. Found art features in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie.

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French: French can refer to more than one article:...

Marcel Duchamp: Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was an influential French/American artist. He was arguably the most important influence on the development of post-war art in Europe and North America, in particular Pop Art and Conceptual Art....

Fountain: A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away....

Found art related Images and Photos (experimental)

Art	Art Expo (green)	Found Out	Lost & Found (DVD)
Art Attack	Lost & Found	POM Art	Tile Art 1
Art Deco Retro	Paradise Found I	Zebra Art	Pop Art is: Popeye