If it greatly resembles collage, assemblage distinguishes itself from it by the creation of works in three dimensions. It consists in the combination of various objects or fragmented pieces to form a sometimes surprising whole. The art of assemblage has been experimented with by many famous artists, such Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Marcel [Read more]

The art of collage consists in conglutinating various materials on a medium, or even joining objects together, for example: scraps of paper, pieces of wood, photos, newspaper pages or little trinkets. The artist can equally polish off his work by adding to it a drawing or painting. We consider this form of art as a specificity of the 20th [Read more]

In a general way, we call "craftsmanship" the work of a single person or group with a limited number of individuals who manually produce an object and use only a limited variety of tools and materials. However, the term is greatly contested, since no-one agrees on what it should designate or exclude.

Craftsmen are generally [Read more]

In Canada, craftsmanship enjoyed an important rise during the 50's. At the time, they advocated values of self-sufficiency, which undoubtedly fed this popularity. Utilitarian objects, or art, made by local craftsmen were then preferred to those assembled in factories.

Today, it's estimated that more than 1.5 million Canadians spend at [Read more]

Formed by a group of nonconformist artists, deeply marked by the atrocities of the W.W.I., the Dada movement, or Dadaism, was created as a means to put into question established standards, notably artistic thought. Its founders wished to shock the proponents of conformity and destroy conformism, which governed the arts of the day. Having [Read more]

Native of Romania, Daniel Spoerri touched the arts for the first time as the dancer étoile of the Stadttheater in Bern. He next worked in a multitude of professions, before making his first "trap-paintings" in 1959. Unique in their kind, these canvases are in fact collages of sundry objects, very often dishes and leftovers, on [Read more]