Angel Art, the worlds greatest manifestorsJean Arp
Coming full circle with Angel ArtJean Arp (1887-1966) was a painter, a sculptor and a poet. (And truely one of the greater examples of angel art.) It is my personal feeling that his sculpting is the last station of his artistic process. As such Jean Arp, like Alfred Regner, has succesfully come full circle with the experiencing of true angel art; being the man becoming the angel and becoming back the man having manifested the angel. Fascinated by his contacts with modern artistic developments in Paris as early as 1904, he studied at Weimar (1905-7) and subsequently at the Academie Julian in Paris (I908). In 1909 he went to Switzerland, where he met Paul Klee.
DadaïsmIn 1915, he exhibited his first abstracts at Zurich and in the following year he joined the Zurich DADA group.His uniquely personal type of abstract compositions with oviform or curvilinear shapes are lying borders constructivism and surrealism. Arp also began his experiments with automatic composition with random and chance elements and collectivism. In 1925 also he participated in the first Surrealist exhibition and became a member of the Surrealist group in Paris. SurrealismHe had several important exhibitions in New York, where in 1948 he published On my Way Poetry and Essays I912-47. and he himself visited the U.S.A. in 1949 and 1950.
Jean Arp and automatic drawing
In order to manifest the angel in sculpture, Jean Arp used his subconscious and experimented with Automatic Drawing.
The Automatic Drawings
The Sculptures
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