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Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist . Early life
Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966) Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 – January 1 1938) Johannes Baader (June 22, 1875 – January 15, 1955) Johannes Theodor Baargeld (October 9, 1892 – August 16 or 17, 1927) Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927) André Breton (February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966) Gino ...
Berger des Nuages, Pastor de Nubes, or Cloud Shepherd [2] is a work of art by Jean Arp just outside the Plaza Cubierta of the University City of Caracas. Background
Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral is an abstract bronze sculpture by Jean Arp. Modeled in 1950; it was cast in 1957. Modeled in 1950; it was cast in 1957. [ 1 ]
Madeleine Chalette was born in 1915 in Paris, France, and moved with her family to Poland as a child. In 1940, following her successful effort to secure the release of her father, Leon Chalette, from Sachsenhausen, a German concentration camp near Berlin, father and daughter traveled by boat to Shanghai, where they lived during World War II, arriving in the United States in 1946. [6]
John Cage composed this piece as a way of celebrating the work of Jean Arp on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Jean Arp, an artist in which John Cage found much inspiration in the period the piece was composed in, created paintings and collages, circa 1915–1930, including maneuvers of chance, like dropping cutouts of paper or strings and cementing them where they fell.
In the 1920s, the lessees of L’Aubette, brothers Paul and André Horn, commissioned Theo van Doesburg, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Jean Arp to transform the interior of the building to meet contemporary needs and give it a bold, modern look. Past artistic experience and background inspired the artists’ contributions on the design of l'Aubette.
The article goes on to list Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth as examples of artists whose work epitomises the use of biomorphic form. [ 5 ] In July 2015 a Facebook Group was set up by British artist Andrew Charles.