In these teacher materials, and during the videoconference, Fauvism, Cubism, de Stijl, Surrealism, and other selected movements in early 20th-century art are introduced through the museum's collect
Jean Arp (French, 1887-1966)
painted wood, Overall: 41.3 x 53 x 8.3 cm (16 1/4 x 20 13/16 x 3 1/4 in.). Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1970.52
This relief of painted wood was inspired by the branches, roots, and foliage Arp observed around Ascona, a Swiss town on Lake Maggiore. Ascona was an important meeting place for the Dada group Arp helped establish around 1915. Dada artists gathered in Switzerland to escape the senseless slaughter and dehumanizing, industrialized combat of World War I. Arp's ambition was to create a radically new art suggesting the simplest, most naive elements.
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 4-May 6, 2001. "Conserving the Past for the Future."
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2/19/2006 - 5/14/2006) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (6/16/2006 - 9/11/2006): "Dada" ex. cat. no. 38, p. 67.
CMA (organizer). Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
Museum of Modern Art, New York (12/23/2012 - 4/15/2013): "Inventing Abstraction, 1912-1925", ex. cat. no. 340, p. 285.
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