Jean Arp citáty
Jean Arp
Datum narození: 16. září 1886
Datum úmrtí: 7. červen 1966
Hans Arp byl sochař, malíř a básník.
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„Šílenství a vraždění už byly rozpoutány, když se dada roku 1916 vynořilo z temných hlubin Curychu. … Dada chtělo vytrhnout lidstvo z jeho ubohé neschopnosti a zachránit lidi před zuřivým šílenstvím válečné doby.“
— Jean Arp
Source: [Míka, Robert, Uragán dadaismu změnil před 100 lety pohled na umění i svět, archiweb.cz, 2016-02-02, 2016-04-01, http://www.archiweb.cz/news.php?action=show&id=18875&type=2]
„Produkovat tak, jako rostlina produkuje plod, ne reprodukovat.“
— Jean Arp
Source: [Pijoan, José, Dějiny umění 10, Knižní klub, 2000, 80-242-0218-2, 79, česky]
„We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce.“
— Hans Arp
1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), Context: We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.
p. 183: Serge Fauchereau (1988) in Arp, p. 20 commented: 'Even though his work was nonrepresentational, Arp disapproved of the term 'abstract art' being applied to it, as he often explained with the above quote'.
„I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature.“
— Hans Arp
1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), Context: I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Piet Mondrian [in Paris, 1920's], he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Art's origins are natural.
p. 359
„Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe.“
— Hans Arp
1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), Context: Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
p. 315
„The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.“
— Hans Arp
1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), Context: Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.
p. 63
„I wanted to find another order, another value for man in nature. He should no longer be the measure of all things“
— Hans Arp
1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), Context: I wanted to find another order, another value for man in nature. He should no longer be the measure of all things, nor should everything be compared with him, but, on the contrary, all things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. I wanted to create new appearances, to extract new forms from man. This is made clear in my objects from 1917.
p. 183
„Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation“
— Hans Arp
Attributed from posthumous publications, Context: Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
quote in Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories, Viking, 1972, p. 231
„A deep and serene silence filled her structures composed of colors and surfaces. The exclusive use of horizontal and vertical rectangular planes in the work of art, the extreme simplification, exerted a decisive influence on my work. Here I found, stripped down to the limit, the essential elements of all earthly constructions: the bursting, upward surge of the lines and the planes toward the sky, the verticality of pure life, and the vast equilibrium, the sheer horizontality and expansiveness of dreamlike peace. Her work was for me a symbol of a divinely built 'house' which man in his vanity has ravaged and sullied.“
— Hans Arp
1960s, a remark on the art of Sophie Taeuber, whom he later married.
in Abstract Painting Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., 1964, p. 58
„Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.“
— Hans Arp
1940s, Dadaland (1948); Quoted in: Cosana Maria Eram (2010) The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists, p. 20
Quote of Jean Arp, referring to Swiss Dada in Zurich after 1914.
„These paintings, these sculptures – these objects – should remain anonymous, in the great workshop of nature, like the clouds, the mountains, the seas, the animals, and man himself. Yes! Man should go back to nature! Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.“
— Hans Arp
1940s, Abstract Art, Concrete Art (c. 1942), In 1915, w:Otto van Rees, A.C. van Rees, Freundlich, S. Taeuber [his wife] and Arp made an attempt of this sort, as Arp mentioned himself.
p. 118
„Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.“
— Hans Arp
Attributed from posthumous publications, Quoted in: Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p. 66
„Concretion signifies the material process of condensation, hardening, coagulating, thickening, growing together. Concretion designates the solidification of a mass. Concretion designates curdling, the curdling of the earth and the heavenly bodies. Concretion designates solidification, the mass of the stone, the plant, the animal, the man. Concretion is something that has grown. I want my work to find it.“
— Hans Arp
1930s, Jean Arp (1931), as quoted in: Eric Robertson (2006) Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor, p. 108
