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...Jean (Hans) Arp once outlined his credo. To save man from death by mechanization, Arp for over half a century has made the subconscious and irrational his ally, has turned out objects that profess to explain the metaphysics of the mustache, made eggs, string and shirt fronts serve the purpose of art. In so doing he has earned for himself a reputation as "a one-man laboratory for the discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor...
Open-Eyed Dreams. Born in bilingual Strasbourg in 1887, Arp grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto-abstractionists of the Blue Rider school. As Jean Arp he lived in Paris, where he was a friend of Picasso, Apollinaire and Modigliani. He first made his mark in Zurich as one of the founders of the give-the-bourgeois-hell movement called Dada. So wacky did the Dadaist antics...
...fact, says Arp, Dada was dedicated art: "My gouaches, reliefs, plastics were an attempt to teach man what he had forgotten-to dream with his eyes open." Using a jig saw, he made inexpensive wood reliefs around such motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts...
...foundry workers, Lipchitz is a hard taskmaster. "What interests me now is to find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks Lipchitz with such sculptors as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Brancusi and Giacometti) to say: "From the early days of cubism to the present, Lipchitz has been in the forefront. He has extended the whole conception and technique of bronze casting...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean Arp for a forthcoming retrospective, the museum found that Arp abstractions painted with oil on canvas can enter duty free, but an Arp collage (made of pasted doilies, tapestry and cloth) is dutiable. Arp's abstract marble, Configurations of Serpent Movements, was cleared because its title suggests it was modeled...