objet trouve

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The Word of the Day for August 27 is:

objet trouve   \AWB-zhay-troo-VAY\   noun
     : a natural or discarded object found by chance and held to have aesthetic 
value

Example sentence:
     The museum's latest show, which features objets trouves, is a dramatic 
change from last year's exhibition of medieval religious art.

Did you know?
     "Objet trouve" comes from French, where it literally means "found object." 
The term entered English during the early 20th century, a time when many 
artists challenged traditional ideas about the nature of true art. Surrealists 
and other artists, for instance, held that any object could be a work of art if 
a person recognized its aesthetic merit. "Objet trouve" can refer to naturally 
formed objects whose beauty is the result of natural forces as well as to 
man-made artifacts (such as bathtubs, wrecked cars, or scrap metal) that were 
not originally created as art but are displayed as such.





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