Fernandez Arman (1928-2005) was a French sculptor and visual artist active in France and the United States. He studied at the Ècole du Louvre in Paris. Arman belonged to the so-called "neorealists", a group created by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein m.fl. The neorealists depicted mass-produced everyday objects and integrated them into their works. Restany argues that "neorealism" observes sociological reality without any controversial intentions. This could possibly open up an understanding of Arman's work. In the late 1950s, the focus of his work shifted from traditional painting and sculpture to the "readymade" and the object itself. Readymade refers to an everyday, often mass-produced object, often called an "objet trouvé" in the art world, that an artist has selected and elevated to the status of art. Arman is best known for his sculptures depicting assemblages of objects, often musical instruments, such as saxophones and violins.