Non Loin du Solei, De La Lune et Des ‘Etoiles’
JEAN ARP
JEAN ARP, 1962–1963
Arp saw chance as his greatest collaborator. Throughout his career, working across almost every medium available to him, Arp bridged the gap between 20th century art movements, but his breadth belies a consistency of thinking. Arp worked with form first, generating shapes and letting the artwork move from there. The conscious mind was a hindrance in creation – natural forms dominate his work and he presents visual information as an alien seeing it for the first time. The father of Organic Abstraction, his titles were the last element of any work to be considered. Here, a yellow circle is the sun, the moon, and the stars, and we are close to them all.