Assemblage

Assemblage is an artistic technique utilizing found objects relevant to the piece's concept or theme and attaching them to the canvas to create a three dimensional work.  The term was first coined in the early 1950's when Jean Debuffet created a collage of butterfly wings titled Assemblage d'empreintes but the method had been used previously by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Nevelson.

John Angus Chamberlain was an American sculptor who was very well know for his use of assemblage in his sculptures.





 S, metal 1959, John Angus Chamberlain





Example of Assemblage on Project 0