Definition of Jean Arp

1. Noun. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966).

Exact synonyms: Arp, Hans Arp
Generic synonyms: Artist, Creative Person, Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Arp

JeOS
JeOSes
Jeames
Jeameses
Jean
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Frederic Joliot
Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp (current term)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard

Literary usage of Jean Arp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sculpture in Rotterdam by Jan van Adrichem, Jelle Bouwhuis, Mariette Dölle (2002)
"... and Jean Arp. Like them his work, with its poetic, biomorphic shapes, refers to the animal and plant world. The boundary line between abstract and ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"He praises Jean Arp for his sense of immanent orderliness within nature but is reluctant to suppose that the curvilinear forms which are so predominant in ..."

3. Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture by Edith Balas (1998)
"He, like Jean Arp at the time and Henry Moore later, conceived sculptures as natural forms coming to life and in the process of growth. ..."

4. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"Jean Arp was wrestling with the problem of how to put together the two blocks of the perfectly smooth wood sculpture he was making so that they would come ..."

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