Editing Jean Arp (section)

=== The [[Henri Bergson]] Influence ===
In 1926 Arp moved to the Paris suburb of [[Meudon]]. In 1931 he broke with the Surrealist movement to found [[Abstraction-Création]], working with the Paris-based group Abstraction-Création and the periodical, ''Transition''. Beginning in the 1930s the artist expanded his efforts from collage, assemblage (''Trousse d'un Da'', 1921<ref>[https://collection.centrepompidou.fr/artworks/authors/ARP%20Jean%20(ARP%20Hans,%20dit)%E2%86%B9ARP%20Jean%20(ARP%20Hans,%20dit)/year/1914__1932?page=1 ''Trousse d'un Da(da)''], 1921, MNAM, Paris</ref>) and bas-relief to include bronze and stone sculptures.<ref>[[Michael Kimmelman]] (4 May 1990), [https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/04/arts/review-art-the-power-of-whimsy-jean-arp-s-later-work.html The Power of Whimsy: Jean Arp's Later Work] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> He produced several small works made of multiple elements that the viewer could pick up, separate, and rearrange into new configurations.<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/259 Jean Arp, ''Head and Shell (Tête et coquille)'' (ca. 1933)] [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref>

[[File:Pastor de Nubes o Formes de Lutin.JPG|thumb|''[[Berger des Nuages|Cloud Shepherd]]'', Jean Arp (1953), [[Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas]]]]
Throughout the 1930s and until the end of his life, he wrote and published essays and poetry. In 1942 he fled from his home in [[Meudon]] to escape German occupation and lived in [[Zürich]] until the war ended.