Jean Arp

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Jean Arp

• By Esther Lee
• Per. 3

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Abstract Arp Art
Traumfigur Gallery William Beadleston Connecticut,
USA
Coquille Crystals Kroller-Muller Museum Otterlo,
Netherlands
Tête florale MB Galeria de Arte New York, USA
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Oriform National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.,
USA
Unnamed UCLA California, USA
Human Concretion Private Collection
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Biography

• Born Sept. 16, 1886
• German-French sculptor, painter poet
• Attended art school in France and Germany
• Founded Dada movement in Europe
• Dada -gt Surrealist -gt Abstraction-Creation
• Twice-married (Sophie Taeuber Marguerite
  Hagenbach)
• 1954 Won Grand Prize for Sculpture at Venice
  Biennale
• Key exhibitions in France and New York
• Died June 7, 1966

Arp and first wife Sophie
Budding young artist Arp poses for the camera.
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Arps Life
1916 Founded Dada movement in Zurich
1931 Founded Abstraction-Creation after breaking
from Surrealism
1905-1907 Studied at Kuntschule in Germany
1950 Mural at UNESCO building in Paris
1958-1962 Exhibitions in NYC and Paris
1925 Work appeared in first surrealist
exhibition at Galerie Pierre
Born Sept. 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, France
1954 Won Grand Prize for Sculpture at Venice
Biennale
Died June 7, 1966 in Basel, Switzerland
1908 Attended Academie Julian in Paris
1949 Solo exhibition at Buchholz Gallery in NYC
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What Arp says

• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit
  on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Femme Paysage
Constellation
Wingedbeing
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Coulisses de foret
Schalenboom

• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man
  has turned his back on silence. Day after day he
  invents machines and devices that increase noise
  and distract humanity from the essence of life,
  contemplation, meditation.

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• "We had a dim premonition that power-mad
  gangsters would one day use art itself as a way
  of deadening mens minds."

Human Concretion
Unnamed
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Torso-Garbe (1958)
Plastron et fourchette

• "Everything is approximate, less than
  approximate, for when more closely and sharply
  examined, the most perfect picture is a warty,
  threadbare approximation, a dry porridge, a
  dismal mooncrater landscape. What arrogance is
  concealed in perfection. Why struggle for
  precision, purity, when they can never be
  attained. The decay that begins immediately on
  completion of the work was now welcome to me."

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Materials and Techniques

• Simple, organic materials
• Wood
• Bronze
• Paint
• Paper
• Marble
• String
• Collage
• Painting
• Bronze-casting
• Carving

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A Look at Bronze-Casting

• Sculpt piece w/ clay (lacquer when leather-hard).
• Make rubber mould.
• Cover sculpture w/ clay blanket.
• Thick plaster jacket put over mould.
• Pour rubber into mould and let it set.
• Use chisel to peel off rubber.
• Paint wax into rubber mould.
• Apply runners, risers core pins to wax.
• Encase wax to withstand high temp.
• Fire in kiln

Bronze being poured into a mold.
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Bronze-Casting (cont.)

• Pour molten bronze into mould.
• After it sets, break open mould.
• Wash and remove cracks from bronze.
• PatinatingChemical coloring of bronze
• Polish and wax to protect piece.

Human Lunar Spectical, Torso of a Giant
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Elements of art
Color and Value
Planes
Shape and Form
Mass and Volume
Space
Texture
These sculptures show the varying shapes and use
of space.
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Principles of Design
Movement
Balance
Repetition
Proportion
Unity
Variety
The blobs create a balanced and unified shape.
Sculpture to be Lost in the Forest  (1932)
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Purpose/Meaning

• Arp believed his work to be concrete, even though
  its abstract
• Preference for unconventional
• Represents his views (Dadaism, Surrealism,
  Abstraction-Creation)
• Arp sought to intertwine natural elements with
  different shapes.
• Demonstrates that art can involve simple
  materials and designs, but still be meaningful.

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Works Cited

• http//www.thebestlinks.com/images/7/74/JeanArp.jp
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• www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/arp.html
• http//www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T04/T04854_9.j
  pg
• http//www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jean_a
  rp.html
• http//www.lugano.ch
• http//www.wikipedia.org
• http//www.johnelkington.com/weblog/Locarno-Jean-A
  rp.jpg
• http//www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T00/T00242_8.j
  pg
• http//www2.skolenettet.no/kunstweb/skulptur/bilde
  r/div_bilder/arp.jpg
• http//prasa.o.pl/i/ab-2004-164-arp.jpg
• http//www.wmchambersfineart.com
• http//www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/leymarie/q
  uotes.html
• http//recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/arp.j
  peg
• http//www.fantasyarts.net/Arp/paul20arp_human_co
  ncretion_small.jpg
• http//www.lrp.de/webgalerie/c_plastiken/c3_skulpt
  uren/ex_arp1.htm
• http//www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/slideshow
  s/dada/dfourchette.jpg
• http//www.artnet.com
• http//siggy.chem.ucla.edu

Automatic Drawing
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Works Cited

• http//solair.eunet.yu
• http//www.bluffton.edu
• http//www.born-today.com
• http//www.guggenheimcollection.org
• http//www.classifieds4u.co.uk
• http//www.koikadit.net
• http//www.fondationarp.org
• Andreotti, Margharita. The Early Sculpture of
  Jean Arp.
• Ann Arbor, Michigan. UMI Research Press,
  1989.
• http//www.getty.edu
• http//www.guggenheim-venice.it
• http//www.britannica.com
• http//www.gallica.co.uk/celts/casting.htm
• http//academics.smcvt.edu
• Kramer, Hilton. Art Arp the Enchanter.
• The New York Times. 23 July, 1976.
• Canaday, John. Show Celebrates Arp Sculpture
  Gift.
• The New York Times. 26 May, 1972
• http//www.doitsu-nen.jp

Pagoda Fruit

Surrealist Sculpture
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The End