Arman’s painting with objects

I recently saw this piece ‘Miaudulation de fritance ‘(1962) by Arman in the Centre Pompidou.  The French born American artist began working as an abstract painter before using the brushes he painted with in the painting itself.  Thereafter, many of his works combined large quantities of the same object such as axes, cutlery, clocks, gas masks, shoes, typewriters and in this case, hundreds of light bulbs.  Objects are usually arranged in castings or plexiglass cases.   Above image via RMN

Images via Brown Foundations, Azurlingua-Culture, Huffington Post, Arman Studio, New York Times