Noun1.Arp- Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966) Hans Arp,Jean Arp Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
Dada lasted for a relatively short period of time, from about 1915 to 1922. It was founded in Zurich by figures like Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp, but artists were also active in New York, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, and Hanover. Here are 8 Dada artists who are still remembered for their ...
It is easy to parallel the next coming year to the times where people made pieces likeMustache HatbyJean (Hans) Arp(shown below), a representation of chance, playfulness, and self-importance. This is because this year has jarred many to the point of not even caring about the year itself ...
The Dada movement is believed to have begun on October 6th, 1916, at the Café Voltaire in Zurich, part of neutral Switzerland, where Ball and others of the true believers-- Emmy Hennings, Tristran Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Tauber, Hans Richter among many...
If the movement in Zürich was focused on using literature and absurd pageantry to upend the cultural values of the day, and if New York Dadaism was about pulling the rug from under the feet of the respectable art world with unfathomable readymades, then Dada’s political expression par excell...
When one thinks of Cubism, Pablo Picasso comes into mind and should come as no surprise as he was the founder of the movement along with Georges Braque. There were others such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Fernand Leger. As evidenced through ...
where she has been living for the past 15 years. At the Sorbonne, she embarked on a research project on Leipzig’s communist painters during the Cold War, began reading Jean-Luc Nancy and other French theorists, and immersed herself in the world of painters she reveres: Luc Tuymans, Micha...
Nadya Tolokonnikova, an artist who is founder of the feminist collective Pussy Riot, has long been persecuted in Russia for her conceptual performances and artistic protest against the Putin regime. Her performance Punk Prayer in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, recognized by The Guardian...
Also, the paronomasiac gamut of “lighthearted-to-irresponsible” could pretty well be a proud self-description of a “moral generation” (+/-60 years) whose early experience of art included Dadaism and whose later cohort is supposed to have chanted “Sous-les pavés, la plage!”, whose ...
54As if this diversitywere not enough, consider another founder of Dadaism, the German Hugo Ball51See hisGesammelte Werke I. Essays, Reden. Vorträge(Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta,1977) for a sampleof his approach to National Socialism.52For all that it is worth noting, as Ian Buruma has ...