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Found Absurdist Art: 1950’s Mommy Rockets, Flannel Moon Suits & Underwater Firefighters

JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 907

I like Found Art categories:  Found Absurdist, Found Surrealist, Found Cubist. This is a vision of art or design produced for something specifically not absurd or surreal or cubist, but once removed from their intended environment and definers, become the thing that was beyond their specified reach.  The following examples are all from the mid-1950’s, their sources reprinted below:

Blog jan 13 Found absurd man moon 

And this Spongebob-like existence under water, where you can have beaches and surf and fire and etc. at the bottom of the sea:

Blog jan 13 Found absurd underwater 

And of course the mom at the modern electric range feeling the birth of some sort of deep outer space astronautical space travel outer  space rocket (though with no visible viewing windows which leads me to believe that perhaps no Outer Space Astronauts were on board):

Blog jan 13 Found absurd kitchen moon 

The image sources:

Blog jan 13 Found absurd man moon 001 Blog jan 13 Found absurd underwater 001 

Blog jan 13 Found absurd kitchen moon 001

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