In addition to using natural materials, artists now work with all sorts of industrial and synthetic substances, enabling the creation of far more dynamic looped structures.
It is also worth remembering that in most 20th-century collage and assemblage the foreign materials artists used were of little or no value.
"We want to get children to think about the materials artists use," said Dorothea Basile, a former art educator and one of ARTime's founders.
There tends to be little variation, too, in terms of the materials artists generally use in the creation of their portraits.
Hamburger grease and live worms are just some of the materials artist Phil Hansen uses to create his stunning artwork.
So in many cases, an artist is not the first to work with that material, but artists do make the materials their own, and as William Carlos Williams says, "the truth is in things".
From an artistic standpoint [this] creates a lot of material for artists to work with.
"I've never heard of an artist monopolising a material," the artist Christian Furr told the Daily Mail.
Desperation is a material for artists".
"Love, life and death - all of that is the most mundane material for artists.
While stationed in Guam, he took to singing in local bars, favoring material by artists like Johnny Mathis.
