surrealism
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Merett Oppenheim
Object, 1936 Materials: Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, cup Process: Adhesive to attach fur Content: Surrealism, hard/soft, luxury Oppenheim uses fur to create a surrealist object: “a sculpture that joined incongruous parts to create an impossible, uncanny object” It brings about ideas of hard and soft, luxury and the tactile experience of using the objects.…