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Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Hans Arp
Artist, Working Together, Age
"Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture". Book by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, p. 118, "Abstract Art, Concrete Art", 2005.

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Hans Arp
Dream, Art, Writing
"Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". Book by Hans Arp, p. 327, 1958.

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.

Hans Arp
Struggle, Son, Python

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

Hans Arp
White, Drawing, Black
"Search for the Real". Book by Hans Hofmann, 1948.

the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

Hans Arp
Spring, Flower, Fall

In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.

Hans Arp
Reality, Order, Color

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

Hans Arp
Wise, Art, Attitude

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

Hans Arp
Spiritual, Struggle, Air
"Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, p. 307, 1966.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Hans Arp
Academic, Used, Method
"Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essais, souvenirs 1920-1965". Book by Jean/Hans Arp, p. 63, 1966.

Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.

Hans Arp
Squares, Blue, Color

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