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found object

NOUN
found art
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“It was a found object that we readjusted to our purposes, kind of like the character,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

Overhearing the occasional comment about what an abstract painting really looks like — or the sort of frustration a found object might stir — could do the art elite a bit of good.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

The idea that you could prepare dinner like a luminary gastronome using a found object took hold and would not let go.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2019

It is not the only found object she has used in collages.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2018

Johns said he liked it because it allowed him to treat the design of the painting as a given, a found object, and then to do various painterly things to it.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2018



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