Homme vu par une fleur
1958
Hans Arp
‘Man Seen Through a Flower’ is a playful, poetic title for this small sculpture. The title suggests that this would be a male figure, seen from the perspective of a flower. You can view it as a sculpture of a man in flowing, organic forms: a simplified head, upper body and two stretched legs. But you can also see something completely different in it.
Details
- Plan number: C36
- Zone: Collection pavilion
- Title: Homme vu par une fleur
- Creator: Hans Arp
- Date: 1958
- Material: bronze, patina
- Acquisition: donation
- Object number: MID.B.388
Hans Arp likes to play with strange combinations of ideas, inspired by the subconscious. There is no ‘correct perspective’ to look at this work of art. Every perspective gives you a different image.
Arp compares the work of an artist with the fruit of a plant: always natural and evolving. He calls it biomorphic art: inspired by nature, but without being a realistic representation of it.
Hans Arp is also known as Jean Arp because of his dual French-German nationality. As a heavyweight in modern art, he helped found Dadaism in 1916. He is active as a painter and poet, but is mainly known as a sculptor with his reliefs and sculptures with round organic shapes.
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This sculpture is composed of three bowls with irregular shapes. The work appears to have grown organically and is somewhat reminiscent of the trunk of a palm tree. Hans Arp has fused organic with geometric forms, the natural with the considered. Straight lines rarely appear in his work.
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