Afsluiting MW juni 2022

• Kunst
• Basisschool
• Groep 3

Sonia Delaunay

Market at Minho, 1915

Automne, 1965

Collages

Hannah Höch, Grotesk, 1963, photomontage, 9 7⁄8 x 6 5⁄8".

Kurt Schwitters Cherry Picture 1921

Kurt Schwitters made this work from scraps and objects he collected from the streets of his hometown of Hanover, Germany. Although he scavenged the fragments, Schwitters carefully composed and affixed them with glue and nails to a painted board to make this collage. 

Merz Picture 32A. The Cherry Picture has many layers: light and dark paint on the board form the base of the collage and give an illusion of depth; affixed to the board are various fabrics, an image of kittens, candy wrappers, newspaper clippings, and a flashcard of cherries, onto which Schwitters penciled the ungrammatical phrase “Ich liebe dir!” (“I love she!”). Three-dimensional objects, including a broken pipe, protrude from the surface.

Merz Picture 32A belongs to the so-called Merz series, a term Schwitters made up by cutting a scrap from the second syllable of the German word “Kommerz” (commerce), which he included in one of his early collage paintings. Schwitters was trained as a painter, but as World War I came to an end he adopted collage as his preferred process, saying, “Everything had broken down in any case and new things had to be made out of the fragments.”1 With his Merz project he aimed “to create connections, preferably between everything in this world.”

He wrote, “I could not, in fact, see the reason why old tickets, driftwood, cloakroom tabs, wires, and parts of wheels, buttons and old rubbish found in attics and refuse dumps should not be a suitable material for painting as the paints made in factories.”

Rob van Mierlo

Mooie kwallen

Florentijn Hofman

Omgeving

Het Eiland Mark Janssen