Hans Arp and other masters of 20th century sculpture

by Elisa Tamaschke

Hans Arp (1887-1966) made an important contribution to twentieth-century sculpture with a biomorphic formal language that oriented to nature?s processes of change. Arp seized upon the potential inherent to the art of his predecessors and contemporaries. For example, he was interested in the ways artists like August Rodin and Constantin Brancusi reduced the body to the torso and in the use of negative space, which had already garnered significant attention from the avant-garde in the early twentieth century. In turn, numerous artists drew inspiration from Arp?s oeuvre. For example, when...