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20th Century Junk Art

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Nowadays the problem of e-waste is getting worse and worse. Harmful e-wastes and other kind of wastes not only pollute the environment, but also harm people's health. But, some creative artists have created fine art from these e-wastes .While these artists' efforts have not helped the green movement; they have proved that the rubbish can also create its own value.
In 20th century Junk art is a concept that created in order to save the environment polluting in various ways, and also to demonstrate that art can be made out of anything. The name junk art was first coined by the British art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990), in 1961, to describe artwork art work made from scrap metal, broken-up machinery, cloth rags, timber, waste …show more content…

This set of his work has shown the amount American consumer use product and produce a trash from that action. He starts his project by exploring some shipping port and industrial yard around America to expose the amount of consumption in that country. The project didn't end only for one channel of trash but has the compound in all kinds of product and goods, electronic product or even daily life product and business …show more content…

According to the information we gathered, there are more than 20million E-trash are produced every year. American alone generates about 3.4 million tons of e-waste per year. Every year the consumption of electronic users are increasing. These electronic waste ends up in landfills and toxics like lead, mercury, and cadmium leach into the soil and water.
Such edgy artworks will certainly get the attention from the pop culture world, one of those furniture’s fans is Lady Gaga. The furniture was featured on Gaga's live concert and was named "living in the computer age". This move is also to promote Gaga's album “ARTPOP”. Rollins is happy to be working with Gaga because he wants viewers to associate his work with other things, such as music.
Although we have no such convenient "handicraft bank", but electronic waste is everywhere isn’t it? Benjamin Rollins Caldwell wants to use this recycling to remind the public of the dangers of outdated electronic waste and raise awareness of environmental

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