Louis Pons

Louis Pons (b. 1927cite web| url=http://www.artnet.com/artist/141646/louis-pons.html | title=Louis Pons on artnet | accessdate=2008-02-08] ) is a French collage artist. He specializes in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.cite web| url=http://addverbal.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/tidying-up-as-a-function-of-art/ | title=Tidying up as a function of art | accessdate=2008-02-08] In Agnès Varda's documentary "The Gleaners and I", Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"cite web| url=http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/archives/archives3/may01/050201/ent3.html | title=Documentary collects insightful tales | accessdate=2008-02-08 ] and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.cite web| url=http://addverbal.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/tidying-up-as-a-function-of-art/ | title=Tidying up as a function of art | accessdate=2008-02-08]

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* [http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/pons/pons2.html The artwork of Louis Pons]
* [http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxZoom_VPage&VBID=2K1HZO6E1J32I&IT=ImageZoom01&PN=1&STM=T&DTTM=Image&SP=Album&IID=2S5RYDWFVB2E&SAKL=T&SGBT=T&DT=Image Photo of Pons] taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson
* [http://moca.virtual.museum/guest/melo/melo02.htm Portrait of Pons] by Maria Cristina Melo