4 Fascinating Facts About Jean (Hans) Arp
Learning that Jackson Pollock laid his canvases on the ground and incorporated whole body movement into creating his paintings has made me appreciate abstract art a little more than I did. I love the idea of using direction and speed to drip paint instead of precision. I learned that his method was very intuitive and meant to represent his psyche.
... See moreIn the months that followed the Fountain’s controversial submission, the Dadaist publication The Blind Man published an editorial defending it: “Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title
... See moreEvery kind of petty documentation, psychic laundry list, and autistic gesture has been performed, taped, pinned up, filed, and photographed. Every sort of odd act, from lurking below a ramp in a gallery and masturbating to fantasies about the people walking overhead (Vito Acconci) to patterning one’s body with sunburn (Dennis Oppenheim) has come
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