{"id":4481,"date":"2018-05-12T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2024-10-18T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:11:41","slug":"last-cigarette-a-surreal-found-object-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/last-cigarette-a-surreal-found-object-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Cigarette &#8211; a surreal assemblage."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/surrealism-sculpture-shoe-last-cigarette-5822.jpg\" alt=\"Surrealist dada contemporary sculpture involvinng pareidolia - cigarette and shoe last\" title=\"Surrealist contemporary art - shoe last smoking cigarette\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Cigarette.      Found object sculpture.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shoe last, cigarette, lamp base.      May 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A surreal or dada found object sculpture made from a cobbler&#8217;s shoe last with a cigarette inserted into the circular hole in the last that is designed to accommodate a handle. The last is mounted on a lamp stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sculpture utilises the human sensory condition known as pareidolia, the interpretation of shapes as human faces, to create a surreal head. Pareidolia is essential for the interpretation of a lot of art, especially art in which faces are merely suggested by, say, a few strokes of a paintbrush. In some art pareidolia is actually a curse though \u2013 think of the number of abstract images that are ruined when you see an unintentional face in them.<br>The sculpture&#8217;s title, <em>Last Cigarette<\/em>, utilises the human tendency to reinterpret words to create puns &#8211; in this case the word &#8216;last&#8217; referring to the wooden cobbler&#8217;s last, meaning that the cigarette is the last&#8217;s last cigarette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Cigarette. Found object sculpture. Shoe last, cigarette, lamp base. May 2018 A surreal or dada found object sculpture made from a cobbler&#8217;s shoe last with a cigarette inserted into the circular hole in the last that is designed to accommodate a handle. The last is mounted on a lamp stand. The sculpture utilises the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[125,64,51,76,54,47,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}