Deconstruct Assignment Response

For this project I really like the idea of using readymade objects and deconstructing them to make a form of art. I especially like the catch that - "you have to use all parts of the original form. And, final solution should be meaningful and materials significant - so carefully choose your found objects."  I also think not having a size requirement would help us think outside of the box.

Throughout reading the blog on ASSEMBELAGE  and looking at examples of Andy Ducett's work it is impressive to see how many things he took apart, along with the sheer size of his works some of them were large enough to cover a computer desk. I like how he uses many different materials, and doesnt keep himself confined to specific materials. Another artist that caught my eye was George Macinunas and his portrayal of deconstruction in such a small mannor. In this article they talk about adding numerous Fluxus games, incorperating cards, puzzles, contest, rules etc... The art work gets the viewer involved and interested in their own ways. Another great artists I saw on the blog was  Lucas Samaras. I really like his work called " self portrait" and how he thinks outside of the box while incorperating still life forms and many different multimedias. It was a great idea to not only do one image of himself, but to incorperate many different immages of himself in this box covered in needals.
It is really interesting to see all of these different artists and how they created their own style and conformed to the dada period .

I can personally say that from viewing a few different forms of artwork on this blog, it has really helped brawden my views on art, and gave a lot of really good examples of other works of art.

Vocab:

- Dada / Dadaism - a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.

- Readymade -  Already made, prepared, or available: Examples like a bicyle tire, or Marcel Duchamp's fountain, which was actualy a urinal.

- Surrealism - A style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.

- Futurism - A belief that the meaning of life and one's personal fulfillment lie in the future and not in the present or past. An artistic movement originating in Italy around 1910 whose aim was to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary life, especially as embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery.

-Fluxus / Fluxfests -