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James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist.Hampton worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
This domestic, yet industrial substance—reflective, yet burnished, crinkly, and endlessly impressionable—has become the artist's truest metaphor for the psyche. Many of the objects that Kemp has created with foil have taken the form of "masks"—expanses of fractalized sheet foil with strangely shaped holes that resemble eyes and mouths.
Winter created abstract compositions with occasional botanical or biomorphic elements. He employed copper, steel, silver, or aluminum as his substrate and sometimes used foil inlays in addition to the enamel colors. The works ranged from household tableware to large wall plaques.
Shortly after World War I, Reynolds founded the U.S. Foil Company in Louisville, Kentucky. Among the company's early partners were R.J. Reynolds and the British-American Tobacco Company. The company's original business was to roll tin and lead foil for cigarette packaging. Among other innovations, Reynolds devised a moisture-preserving tobacco tin.
“This is not the art world…We weren’t going to Art Basel…” he says, referring to the international art fair. “This was a very specific niche of North Carolina pottery.”
Aluminium foil (or aluminum foil in American English; occasionally called tin foil) is aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves. The foil is pliable and can be readily bent or wrapped around objects. Thin foils are fragile and are sometimes laminated with other materials such as plastics or paper to make them stronger and more useful.
The art moved the story forward; the first show, the backdrop for when Hayes seeks Solène out after their Coachella meeting, has a muted palette, featuring "organic, textural, simplified" art ...
So NASA’s scientists wrapped the cables in a whole lot of aluminum foil and found that in 1979 Voyager 1 had safely swung past Jupiter and would continue on its legendary journey.