The work is a visual poem, tense and tight, like two cellphone conversations in proximity, with one word, “stark” — the German word for “strong” — repeated at different volumes. Credit: @ Berkeley Art Museum
- The work is a visual poem, tense and tight, like two cellphone conversations in proximity, with one word, “stark” — the German word for “strong” — repeated at different volumes.
- Color and texture become content on this piece from 1922 with the red and yellow tobacco label, the handwriting and the all over surface pattern
- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War.
- Kurt Schwitters, Color and Collage continues at the Berkeley Art Museum through November. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
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