Historical Examples. 1  When he heard the drums he flared up like a spark in the tinder. 2  It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. 3  You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. 4  I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy Here is the flint, the tinder being contained in this little box.
The signature is reproduced in black paint. Fountain has been seen as a quintessential example, along with Duchampâs Bottle Rack 1914, of what he called a â readymade â, an ordinary manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art (and, in Duchampâs case, interpreted in some way).
Wentworth creates sculptures of the everyday, using readymades and odd objects and arranges them in a way that makes us recognise the dramas in our everyday routines. He typically uses found objects not associated with art materials such as sweet wrappers, plates, books and buckets in his sculptures. wellington boot becomes a doorstep, a cup becomes a window prop and a brick and piece of board become a ramp. Wentworth uses photography to capture the usual behaviour of objects in urban landscapes, in doing so, gives them the same attention as more traditional art objects.