found object
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
