Early Years
Although “junk art” may have been around millions of years ago, the first junk artist we can be sure of was Marcel Duchamp, who was born in the late 19th century. His work flourished in the early 20th century, and he specialized in taking junked items out of their normal environments and transplanting them into new ones. Other junk artists from the 19th and 20th centuries include Kurt Schwitters, Vladimir Tatlin, and the famous Pablo Picasso.