Jean Arp

🌐 Primary Sources & Official Portals

• MoMA Collection: Jean Arp: https://www.moma.org/artists/11
• Fondation Arp Clamart: https://www.fondationarp.skynetblogs.be/

Description

Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet who was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zurich. Arp pioneered the use of chance operations in visual art, famously creating collages by tearing paper, dropping the fragments onto a surface, and pasting them where they fell.

Related Entities

• tristan-tzara
• hannah-hoch
• marcel-duchamp

Related Concepts

• dada
• chance-operations
• collage-assemblage

Mentions in Source

• “Arp declared that these works were arranged ‘according to the laws of chance’, surrendering conscious aesthetic control to random physical events.” — dada-movement-and-photomontage