Sam Francis

Untitled, 1984

106.7 X 73 inch

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What is wood?

What is wood?

Wood is one of the most ancient and versatile materials used to create artwork. It has been used as the base for paintings, to make brush handles, pens and pencils, as easels to support canvas, for wood engraving, woodcut and woodblock printing, and sculpting.

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KAWS

Better Knowing, 2023

Sculpture / Object

Wood

GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Jeff Koons

Seated Ballerina, 2015

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 85,000 - 100,000

Joe Tilson

Demeter, 1981

Sculpture / Object

Wood

Currently Not Available

Stephan Balkenhol

Relief Mann, 2010

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 60,000 - 70,000

Marina Apollonio

Dinamica Circolare Ellisse 6Z, 1969-2022

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 1,500

Joe Tilson

Stele for Dionysos, 1981

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 3,650

Karel Appel

Couple in Wood, 1975

Sculpture / Object

Wood

Currently Not Available

Karel Appel

Flower with Blue Eyes, 1977

Sculpture / Object

Wood

USD 6,990

Marina Apollonio

Dinamica Circolare 6 S+S, 1966

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 3,500

Marina Apollonio

Dinamica Circolare 6B Ruotato, 1968

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 3,500

Joe Tilson

Secret, 2003

Sculpture / Object

Wood

Currently Not Available

Joe Tilson

Ziggurath, 2003

Sculpture / Object

Wood

Currently Not Available

Joe Tilson

Key box, 2003

Sculpture / Object

Wood

Currently Not Available

Josef Felix Müller

Stuhl (Kopf), 1992

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 5,000

Jan De Cock

Construction module Tate Modern M8-D53-14022005 C, 2005

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 10,000

Geneviève Claisse

ADN rouge , 1972-2016

Sculpture / Object

Wood

EUR 2,500

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Art Nucleare

Arte nucleare was the name of a Milan artist group founded in 1951. The group sought to make art which responded to the dangers and technology of the nuclear age. Their works proposed using automatic techniques, and included devastated landscapes and renderings of bomb clouds.

Appropriation

The use of images or pre-existing objects with application of little or completely no transformation to them. It has played a very significant role in the history of visual, musical, performing and literary arts. In visual arts for instance, to appropriate means properly adopting, sampling, recycling or borrowing aspects(even entire form) of artificial visual culture.

Sound Art

Artistic discipline where sound is used as a medium. Like the other contemporary art genres, Sound Art is interdisciplinary in its nature. It can engage with a wide range of subjects that include electronics, acoustics, noise music, psychoacoustics, audio media, video or film and sculpture among other subjects. Early examples of sound art include Luigi Russolo's noise intoners and other experiments done by surrealists, Dadaists and happenings of Fluxus among others.

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