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The Button. / 39.95222; -75.19369. The Button (officially, Split Button) is a modern art sculpture that lies at the center of campus at the University of Pennsylvania. It was designed by Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who specialized in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects.
In modern clothing and fashion design, buttons are commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or seashell. Buttons can also be used on containers such as wallets and bags. Buttons may be sewn onto garments and similar items exclusively for purposes of ornamentation.
Whatever the form of the container, the fastener which secured the cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke. Netsuke , like inrō and ojime , evolved over time from being strictly utilitarian into objects of great artistic merit and an expression of extraordinary craftsmanship.
There is much evidence to prove that some trench art was made in the trenches, by soldiers, during war. In With a Machine Gun to Cambrai , George Coppard tells of pressing his uniform buttons into the clay floor of his trench, then pouring molten lead from shrapnel into the impressions to cast replicas of the regimental crest.
Johann Dieter Wassmann ( Jeff Wassmann ), Vorwarts! (Go Forward!), 1897 (2003). Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium.
Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. [1] He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects.
Button, ornamental: Buttons—made from seashell—were used in the Indus Valley Civilisation for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE. Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be attached to clothing by using a thread.
A contemporary button blanket made by Joshua Sherurcij, 2008. A button blanket is wool blanket embellished with mother-of-pearl buttons, created by Northwest Coastal tribes, that is worn for ceremonial purposes.
State Mutual had planned to hand out 100 button pins containing the design, however demand quickly soared. The aim was to get employees to smile while using the phone and doing other tasks. Research has since taken place confirming Ball's instincts. The buttons became popular, with orders being taken in lots of 10,000.
Art of the American Southwest is the visual arts of the Southwestern United States. This region encompasses Arizona , New Mexico , and parts of California , Colorado , Nevada , Texas , and Utah . [1]