Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Germany, 20th century · 1920
Little Dance
- Date
- 1920
- Medium
- collage
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 13.1 x 10.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Mounted: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Country / context
- Germany
- Movement / tradition
- Dada · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
With collages of densely interwoven scraps of paper gleaned from daily life, Schwitters produced dynamic compositions in which the interaction of the materials becomes a kind of dance. Notice here the way the color red "dances" among the subdued tones of white, gray, and ochre.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
