Word: arps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed by Aalto and his first wife Aino. The most atypical piece, the austere "Flower of Riihimaki," is the most beautiful. More often when working in glass, Aalto let his fondness for nature run riot. Vases were a specialty. The free-form circumferences, blobby and bulbous like doodles by Arp or Mird, suggest lakes or amoebas or arboreal cross sections. Even the casting process | was ripped from nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that a Hobbit industrialist would...
...demonstration that the expressive power of human form could be so concentrated as to drop, without loss, such usual signifiers of emotion as the head. This predicted the fragmentation of later modernist sculpture, just as surely as Rodin's ideas about organic form clearly pointed forward to Arp and Moore. "The truth of my figures," he remarked, "instead of being merely superficial, seems to blossom from within to the outside, like life itself...
...recent years, Lichtenstein has been preoccupied not merely with parody, but with parodies of parody-paintings based on the cartoonist's view of modern art. There was once a "pop" view of surrealism, loosely derived from Dali and Arp and epitomized in the 1940s in such verses...
...into the hearts of the Swiss burghers with their antic cabaret turns in the Café Voltaire, their sound-poems and chance-collages. But their real impact on Zurich was negligible, scarcely a ruffle on the lake, in contrast to the importance that the Dada wood reliefs of Jean Arp have since assumed within the history of art. Even when Dada was politicized after the war, its actual effect on German politics was nil, and its impact on radical thought probably much smaller than the modernist legend would have us think...
Nevelson was not, of course, the first artist to do this: her forerunner in the art of reclamation was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), who made thousands of collages from street refuse. When the sculptor Jean Arp saw Nevelson's great black environment Sky Cathedral in 1958, he wrote her a poem hailing her as Schwitters' spiritual granddaughter, but the fact seems to be that Nevelson had seen nothing by Schwitters...