Constellation Three Graces (Constellation Trois Graces)
Jean Arp French, born Germany
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Beginning in 1917, Arp started creating reliefs in wood, working with a carpenter to cut amorphous shapes that the artist then assembled in layers. The artist began to use bronze late in his practice, having achieved a level of success that allowed him to pursue this more costly and time-consuming process. Arp derived his biomorphic inventiveness from observations of nature’s organic purity and growth processes. Referring to this work as l’art concret (or concrete art), Arp expressed a desire to create art as "concrete and sensual as a leaf or stone."[1]
[1] A.D.S. Donaldson and Ann Stephen. J.W. Power: Abstraction-Création, Paris 1934, Sydney: University Art Gallery, the University of Sydney, 2012, p. 106.
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