Revolving by Kirt Schwitters 1919
Assemblage-Wood, metal, cord, cardboard, wool, wire, leather, and oil on canvas
48 3/8″ x 35″ (122.7 x 88.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Assemblage-Wood, metal, cord, cardboard, wool, wire, leather, and oil on canvas
48 3/8″ x 35″ (122.7 x 88.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
About the Art
In Revolving, the cord, hoops, wire mesh, and small objects tacked to the painterly canvas replace depicted lines and forms. Schwitters’s use of fragments reflects a society shattered by World War I. “Out of parsimony I took whatever I found . . . because we were now an impoverished country,” he wrote in 1919. “New things had to be made out of the fragments.” This work reflects Schwitters’s self-proclaimed “love for the wheel,” and its title refers to a poem by the artist from the same year, in which he wrote, “Worlds turn the new machine to thee. To thee. Though, thine the new machine space.” -MOMA gallery label text
About the Artist
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.
Merz has been called ‘Psychological Collage’. Most of the works attempt to make coherent aesthetic sense of the world around Schwitters, using fragments of found objects. These fragments often make witty allusions to current events. Autobiographical elements also abound; test prints of graphic designs; bus tickets; ephemera given by friends. Later collages would feature proto-pop mass media images.
He was to use the term Merz for the rest of his career. Whilst these works were usually collages incorporating found objects, such as bus tickets, old wire and fragments of newsprint, Merz also included artist’s periodicals, sculptures, sound poems and what would later be called “installations”.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.
Merz has been called ‘Psychological Collage’. Most of the works attempt to make coherent aesthetic sense of the world around Schwitters, using fragments of found objects. These fragments often make witty allusions to current events. Autobiographical elements also abound; test prints of graphic designs; bus tickets; ephemera given by friends. Later collages would feature proto-pop mass media images.
He was to use the term Merz for the rest of his career. Whilst these works were usually collages incorporating found objects, such as bus tickets, old wire and fragments of newsprint, Merz also included artist’s periodicals, sculptures, sound poems and what would later be called “installations”.
Blog Tour
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Featured Designer of the Week:
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How to enter the Monthly Challenge:
1. Create something using an art bead that fits within our monthly theme. We post the art to be used as your inspiration to create. This challenge is open to jewelry-makers, fiber artists, collage artist, etc. The art bead can be created by you or someone else. The challenge is to inspire those who use art beads and to see all the different ways art beads can be incorporated into your handiwork.
An Art Bead must be used in your piece to qualify for the monthly challenge.
An Art Bead must be used in your piece to qualify for the monthly challenge.
***Beads strung on a chain, by themselves and beads simply wire or cord will not be accepted.***
2. Upload your photo to our flickr group. Detailed instructions can be found here and click here for a tutorial for sending your picture to the group.
Please add the tag or title OCT ABS to your photos. Include a short description, who created the art beads and a link to your blog, if you have one.
Deadline is October 31st. Photos are approved by our moderators, if a photo hasn’t followed the guidelines it will not be approved. You may upload 2 photos a day.
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Jewels By Ine
October 2, 2012 at 6:51 pmWauw, will join the challenge for sure! love the art!
cindy
October 2, 2012 at 11:17 pmThis month, I might be up for the challenge! This looks like it right up my alley.
A Polymer Penchant
October 3, 2012 at 1:50 amBeautiful! I've never seen this before but I like it. I'm still working on my piece from last month, but I'll get there
Malin de Koning
October 3, 2012 at 11:07 amWhat a great inspiration piece. Schwitters is a very fascinating artist. WAS. Love the color scheme of this one. And the circle theme. Immediate ideas pop up in my head. Thanks!
Designed by Vera
October 3, 2012 at 1:30 pmInteresting picture…never seen it, but it reminds me of the futuristic cartoons where robots and metal reign. I to love the colors and have an idea already brewing…(cackle, cackle)
Diva Designs Jewelry
October 3, 2012 at 9:26 pmI'm in! Here is my blog post about the challenge. Thanks, ladies!
http://scdiva.blogspot.com/2012/10/art-bead-scene-october-challenge-entry.html
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