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There are three methods for making a sculpture. They are modeling, carving and assemblage. Modeling and carving are traditional methods as old as sculpture itself. Assemblage is a twentieth century innovation. It is basically a three dimensional form of collage. Collage is a method invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Assemblage is a way of constructing surprising and provocative combinations of objects that have either been made by the artist or that are found objects. Found objects are often commonplace, discarded and nontraditional materials that are transformed into art by context. The use of found objects as an art form began with Marcel Duchamp. Like collage, the use of found objects has become a highly influential artistic innovation. Both Picasso and Duchamp, perhaps the two most important artists of the twentieth century, made assemblage sculpture but the term was coined later in the early 1950’s by the artist Jean Dubuffet in his work called Assemblages D'empreintes. Other assemblage artists include Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray and Kurt Schwitters.
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