Artists that deal with Text and Image

Georges Braque

Cubist painter

Entwined the senses with text and image

Marcel Duchamp

Co-established American Dada

His life became his canvas

Moved to New York after World War Two

Hans Arp

Sculptor, painter, poet

Co-founded the "Moderner Bund"

Joined "Der Blaue Reiter"

Moved to Switzerland when World War One started

Co-founded the Zurich Dada movement

Illustrated some of Tristan Tzara's poems

Wassily Kandinsky

Painter, educator, writer

Creator of "Der Blaue Reiter"

Taught at Bauhaus

Used music in his paintings

Dissonance

Published his poems, illustrated with woodcuts

Tristan Tzara

Co-founder of Zurich Dadaism

Published "Dada" magazine

Published first Dadaist manifesto

Man Ray

As a kid, stole his brushes from local shops

Studied anatomy to be better at drawing bodies

Interested in photography, poetry and Dada

Piet Mondriaan

Started drawing landscapes and stills

Adored dancing

Worked with primary colors, black and white

Theo van Doesburg

Founded De Stijl magazine

Worked closely together with Mondriaan

Interested in physics and philosophy

Used a lot of typography in his works