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  2. Still life - Wikipedia

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    Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).

  3. Found object - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, [1] [2] [3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4]

  4. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] In painting, naturalism is the precise, detailed and accurate representation in art of the appearance of scenes and objects. It is also called mimesis or illusionism and became especially marked in European painting in the Early Netherlandish painting of Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck and other artists in the

  5. Appropriation (art) - Wikipedia

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    In France in the 60s, a group of artists called the New Realists used banal objects in their art, such as the sculptor Cesar [30] who compressed cars to create monumental sculptures or the artist Arman [31] who included everyday machine-made objects—ranging from buttons and spoons to automobiles and boxes filled with trash.

  6. 30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature’s ...

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    To give you a glimpse of how amazing this connection can be, here's a list of man-made objects that fit the bill. #1 Bird Safe Glass Every day, hundreds of birds die from flying into glass windows.

  7. Material culture - Wikipedia

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    The scholarly analysis of material culture, which can include both human made and natural or altered objects, is called material culture studies. [6] It is an interdisciplinary field and methodology that tells of the relationships between people and their things: the making, history, preservation and interpretation of objects. [7]

  8. 30 Mind-Blowing Hidden Features of Everyday Objects We're ...

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    When measuring from inside an object, the hook compresses into the slot, and when measuring from the outside, it pulls out, starting from the true zero point. Hindis TV / YouTube 18.

  9. Readymades of Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". [1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the found object became art. Duchamp was not interested in what he called "retinal art ...