Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Dada > Surrealism
Date and Place of Birth:
September 16, 1886, Strassburg, Germany (now Strasbourg, France)
Life:
Jean Arp certainly had a lively intelligence. Over the course of his artistic career, he worked with the Abstract pioneers, was a founder of Dada, hung out with the Surrealists, went on to found the movement Abstraction-Création and invent biomorphic sculpture. All of these movements and his playful, amoeba-like forms had a huge impact on art, particularly in the Performance movement. He also worked in collage and printmaking, and practiced "automatic" (free-conscious) writing.
Important Works:
- Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17
- Mountain Table Anchors Navel, 1925
- Configuration, 1933
- Torso, 1953
Date and Place of Death:
June 7, 1966, Basel, Switzerland
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