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Q4 FUSIONArtists, craftspeople and designers are sometimes inspired

by the fusion of art forms.

Contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe creates work that combines film, sculpture, sound and the still image.

Robert Rauschenberg combined painted, printed and sculptural forms in his work.

The architect David Chipperfield fused old and new elements in the “Neuses Museum” Berlin.

Research relevant sources and create your own work, in any appropriate media, in response to Fusion.

What does Fusion mean?Two definitions:A process in

which different styles, ideas, materials and / or designs combine to form something new.

A process in which two different substances or pieces of a substance join together to form one thing.

Contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe creates work that combines film, sculpture, sound and the still image.

PIERRE HUYGHEPierre Huyghe is a French artist born in 1962. He works in a variety of media but particularly film and video.

Huyghe created a live aquarium with sculptures

TIMEKEEPER 2003An installation view of a hole made in layers of wall paintings from other exhibitions.Made to look like a geographical cross-section or the rings of a tree .

This is Not a Time for Dreaming

A film created by Pierre Huyghe in 2004. It is a puppet musical exploring the architecture of one building in USA designed by Le Corbusier.It fuses fantasy and historical fact.

One Million Kingdoms (2001)An animated film.It mixes truth the soundtrack of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the Moon and story Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth. sculptureand animated figures

Robert Rauschenberg combined painted, printed and sculptural forms in his work.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERGOCTOBER 22, 1925 – MAY 12, 2008

Retroactive I, 1964 & Canyon 1959

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

1996 Untitled lithograph

Robert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg 1925 –2008)was an American painter and graphic artist who was part of the Pop Art movement in USA.He was best known for his COMBINES made in the 1950’s which used unusual materials and objects together in different and original ways. Sometimes they combined painting and sculpture with printmaking photography papermaking and performance.He lived and worked in New York and in Florida.

Rauschenberg panels using combinations of paint print photography

Rauschenberg sculpture using screen printed panels

Rauschenberg sculpture combining objects and painted and printed panels

The architect David Chipperfield fused old and new elements in the “Neuses Museum” Berlin.

The contemporary architect David Chipperfield redesigned the bomb flattened ruin of the Neues Museum in Berlin. The original museum designed in 1859 by Fredrich Stuler was excavated.All the original features that could be kept were kept. Chipperfield then added marble and glass ultra modern stairwells and pillars.

Chipperfield’s architectural drawing

Research relevant sources and create your own work, in any appropriate media, in response to Fusion.

FusionArts Museum is New York’s only visual art space dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of fusion art. The building has been a fixture on the Lower East Side art scene since the 1980s. The gallery has been in existence since June of 2000.

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Fusion is about combining different materials to create a new piece of Art…