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Art And Found Artistic Things
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art. [from wikipedia]
Advertising Art Art Cars Artist General's Billboards Bus Stop Art Colors Droodles Exhibits Fabric Found Kid's Kites Murals Music Numbers Offs Plauqes Point Of View Political Advertising Art Posters Reflections Sacramento Capitol Box Art Project Sayings And Writings Sculpture Shadows Shapes Signs Stickers Studios Topiary Totem Poles Trash Windowfront Exebitions
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Advertising Art, And Found Artistic Things

Virtually any medium can be used for advertising. Commercial advertising media can include wall paintings, billboards, street furniture components, printed flyers and rack cards, radio, cinema and television adverts.[from wikipedia]

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Artist General's, Warnings As Found Art In The San Francisco Bay Area

Michael Masley is The Artist General.An artist who created warnings as art. All are prefixed with, "ARTIST GENERAL'S WARNING:"

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Billboards, As A Form Of Art

A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads.[from wikipedia]

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Bus Stop Art, Artist: Mel Hilario, Katie Longua, and Lauren Davi, Triple Dream Comics, San Francisco, California

A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus. The construction of bus stops tends to reflect the level of usage, where stops at busy locations may have shelters, seating, and possibly electronic passenger information systems; less busy stops may use a simple pole and flag to mark the location.[from wikipedia]

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Sacramento Capitol Box Art Project, Sacramento, California

In January 2014, the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) & the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC) received qualifications from local artists to be considered for CADA's "Capitol Box Art Project". Artists were selected based on past work and paid to create a design (or designs) that was transferred to vinyl, and wrapped around a City of Sacramento traffic utility box.[from capital box art website]

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Art Cars, and Trucks, As Found Art Objects

An art car is a vehicle that has had its appearance modified as an act of personal artistic expression. Art cars are often driven and owned by their creators, who are sometimes referred to as "Cartists". [from wikipedia]

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Colors, As Found Art

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, yellow, purple, or blue. This perception of color derives from the stimulation of cone cells in the human eye by electromagnetic radiation in the spectrum of light. Color categories and physical specifications of color are associated with objects through the wavelength of the light that is reflected from them. This reflection is governed by the object's physical properties such as light absorption, emission spectra, etc. [from wikipedia]

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Droodles, As Found Art

Puzzles of ordinary objects with inobvious meanings.

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Exhibits, of Art
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Fabric, As Found Art

Art discovered in randomly found textiles and wearable materials.

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Found, Art

Discovered art out in the wilds

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Kid's, Found Art

Found drawings and other art by children

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Kites, As Found Art

Kites found aloft and fallen

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Murals
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Music, And Musical Instruments
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Numbers, as Found Art

Integers in various forms and combinations.

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Offs, are Photo Competitions
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Plauqes, Also Placards and other such Expressions

A placard is a notice installed in a public place, like a small card, sign, or plaque.[1] It can be attached to or hung from a vehicle or building to indicate information about the vehicle operator or contents of a vehicle or building. It can also refer to paperboard signs or notice carried by picketers or demonstrators.[from wikipedia]

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Political Advertising Art, And Found Artistic Things

A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including warfare against adversaries.[from websters website]

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Posters, As colections of Art

Posters and other collections of one-sheet sized art pieces on display.

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Point Of View, As Found Art

The camera angle, or or viewpoint or how you look at it can reveal one thing or the other.

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Reflections
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Sayings And Writings, As Found Art

Slogans and found messages on sidewalks and other surfaces.

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Sculpture, As Found Art

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. [from wikipedia]

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Shadows, as Found Art

The shadow as a two-dimensional silhouette

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Shapes, as Art
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Signs, and Posters

From around the world

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Stickers, as Art
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Studios, and Workshops
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Topiary, As Found Art

Plants sculpted or grown to appear like other things

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Totem Poles, As An Art Form

Totem poles are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually made from large trees, mostly western red cedar, by First Nations and Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast including northern Northwest Coast Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian communities in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth communities in southern British Columbia, and the Coast Salish communities in Washington and British Columbia.[from wikipedia]

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Trash, And Art

Art made from or which contains trash

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Windowfront Exebitions, As A Form Of Found Art, Eugene, Oregon

Downtown Eugene's empty storefronts become interactive artworks and galleries with new and evolving windowfront paintings and art installations. Come downtown by foot, car or bike to enjoy windowfronts transformed by local artists, artisans and creatives. Windowfront Exhibitions believes all empty spaces have great potential to be transformed by artists and innovation.[from windowfront website]


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