一天,约翰·张伯伦开着卡车辗碎了一块旧的汽车挡泥板,然后他把碎片拼贴在一起,构成了一张抽象画,该画被他命名为《游击手》。此时,张伯伦觉得自己有能力成为一个艺术家。自此以后,张伯伦开始运用两种截然不同的方法来进行艺术创作:一种是辗碎、扭弯、卷起、捣烂、折叠等;另一种是拼贴技艺,包括艺术家内在的心理活动,如发现材料,占有材料及组织材料等。 张伯伦常常把他的拼贴作品比喻为一首诗,认为作品的各个组成部件是诗中的那些被排列在一起的有趣单词。他根据直觉把雕塑的各个部件和谐地组合在一起,并让它们产生一种潜在的张力。他说这些部件不是空洞的抽象物,而是富有一定含意的物体。 One day, John Chamberlain drove an old motor fender in a truck and then collapsed the pieces together to form an abstract painting, which he named “Shortstop.” At this time Chamberlain felt capable of becoming an artist. Since then, Chamberlain began to use two distinct approaches to artistic creation: one is crushing, twisting, rolling, mashing, folding, and so on; the other is collage art, including the artists’ intrinsic mental activity , Such as found materials, possession of materials and tissue materials. Chamberlain often compared his collage work to a poem, in which the various components of the work are the interesting words in the poem that are arranged together. He instinctively combines the various parts of the sculpture together and gives them a potential tension. He said these components are not empty abstract objects, but rich objects.