Waste and Art in Other Climes: A Review of Few Sculptors

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Waste and Art in Other Climes 

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The industrial revolution ushered in quantum production of goods in various materials and the continuous churning of such goods obviously led to wastes within the environment.The wastes in the ecological space which has posed serious ecological and environmental menace is hitherto engaged in art production by some sculptors that has spanned several decades .Ranging from 1917 to 2008. Waste Art was not a conventional art practice until the twentieth century when he was acknowledged as a genre of art which couldThe theory of “Take and Put, De- contextualize and contextualize” forwarded by Ibarra (2001) aptly capsulated the theoretical frame, backed up bythe philosophy of “Reduce, reuse, recycle” which is the “holy trilogyon which this study hinged onSome randomly selection of a few Sculptors are reviewed in this thesis. The analytical descriptive mode of qualitative research was employed. Sculptors, Pablo Picasso, Ray Tomasso: Alina Szapocznikow, Sayaka Ganz, PaulBonomini, Christophe Guadin , Goncalo Mabunda, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Laura Lynn Jansen, Veronika Richterova ,Peter Buggenhout and the futuristic highly technical Ralf Sander were reviewed in this study.The study exposed the artists and the waste used revealed the community of location of the waste .The waste Artist points out the danger of waste within the ecological space even as he utilizes them.