Jean Arp vs. Wassily Kandinsky
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jean Arp
1886 – 1966
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
"Whatever became of Kurt Schwitters' novel 'Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling' several chapters of which we composed together? Is it buried under the bomb ruins of his…"
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.
"If until now colour and form were used as inner agents, it was mainly done subconsciously. The subordination of composition to geometrical form is no new idea .…"