found object
Example Sentences
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The Readymade—the found object transformed into art—has its roots in the Picasso’s and Braque’s Cubist collages, which incorporated scraps of newspaper, textiles, sheet music and wall paper.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Near a subway station entrance on a busy traffic island, the gesture transformed a private function accommodated by Duchamp’s found object into a desperate social act, which Hammons titled “Pissed Off.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023
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
They fit in well with Philadelphia’s collection, evoking at once Duchamp’s devotion to the found object and Cézanne’s obsession with process.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 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
