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Is your Trash Art?

One of the main motivations for American’s taking out the trash is it’s unsightly nature, however, with the proper handling and care, even your trash can grow to accent your home in ways you may have never imagined. Perhaps not the excess food, considering the less than glamorous nature of the decomposition process and the resulting bugs who might make your kitchen their new outdoors, but before tossing out discarded items, consider your artistic flair.Found Art as the concept is known, centers around recognizing beauty in commonplace items generally passed over by common onlookers with a less keen eye for beauty. Artist Marcel Duchamp first discovered the genre in 1915, to describe an old bicycle wheel he had come across which was intrinsically striking, needing only slight modification to make it gallery worthy. From there Duchamp expanded his found art repertoire to include what once was a former urinal he titled “Fountain.” “Bottle Rack” was Duchamp’s first completely readymade piece of art, needing absolutely no alteration what so every from the street to display. The art world was slow to take to Duchamp’s new philosophy on this revolutionary artistic concept, but he is now almost universally revered as a forward thinker, with today’s contemporary artists following his light of thought to produce junk art.Junk art literally takes items headed towards the dumpster and uses them in a manner of ways, from painting to reshaping to welding and turns them into visually appealing structures worthy of being shown off. Hundreds of artists have made careers out of turning the unwanted into the desired. So before you throw out the old bookshelf that’s been wasting away in the attic, or even the big bag of bottle caps accruing over time by the fridge, consider how today’s trash might shape tomorrow’s masterpiece.