Louis Pons (born 1927
) is a French
collage
Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
. He specializes in
reliefs and
assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.
In
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...
's documentary ''
The Gleaners and I'', Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"
and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.
References
External links
The artwork of Louis PonsPhoto of Pons
taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Portrait of Pons
by Maria Cristina Melo
French artists
Collage artists
1927 births
Possibly living people
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