Artist-collector Butch Anthony is a contemporary adherent to an art form once dubbed assemblage/collage/montage or just plain dada. Yet he has renamed the collecting of flotsam and jetsam to form his own movement of intertwangleism. As a long term collector of stuff, he has imbued his objects with meaning from his own mind, whether humorous, satirical, of the spirit, or as scientific evidence.
What is intertwangleism? Part deception, part simplicity, part mystery, part everyday object reworked or rethought, part cultural anthropology and part geological find.
In the words of Fred C. Fussell, it is:
"an artistic style, appears to be part cubism, part da-da, part expressionism, part science, part spirit, and, not at all least, part tongue-in-cheek. Intertwangleism takes a thing, any thing, and breaks it apart into its basic elements, elements not of science, but of another scheme, a scheme found only in Butch Anthony’s mind. Butch discovered the rudimentary rules of intertwangleism many years ago, when as child he collected stuff. But back then he didn’t know what to call it."
Visit the work of Butch Anthony at:
http://www.museumofwonder.com/Art/Intertwangleism.htm
Notes:
http://www.museumofwonder.com/Art/Intertwangleism4.htm
