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Jean Arp :
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| 1887-1996 |
German-French
sculptor, painter and poet. Jean Arp (also called Hans Arp) was born
in Alsace and studied at the Strasbourg School of Arts and Crafts,
at Weimar (1905-7) and the Academie Julian, Paris (1908). In 1912
he went to Munich where he knew Kandinsky and exhibited semi-figurative
drawings at the second Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1912. Aware of
the developments within the French avant-garde through his contacts
with such figures as Apollinaire and Robert Delauny, in 1914 Arp
exhibited his first abstract paintings. He met up with Max Ernst
in Cologne in 1914 and they became life time friends. In Zurich in 1915 met his wife, the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber and he began making shallow wooden reliefs and compositions of string nailed to canvas. Arp he was a founder member of Dada in Zurich and he participated in the Berlin Dada exhibition of 1920. In Paris, Arp began to evolve his personal style of abstract compositions through an organic morphology, frequently sensuous in form, and began to experiment with automatic composition |
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(automatism). In 1925, he participated
in the first Surrealist exhibition in Paris, before breaking with
Surrealism to become a founder member of Abstraction-Creation in
1931, when his characteristic organic forms became more severe and
geometrical. At a time when he began to turn towards full 3-D sculptures,
Arp insisted that his sculpture was 'concrete' rather than 'abstract',
since it occupied space, and that art was a natural generation of
form: 'a fruit that grows in man', as he put it. |
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