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Merz
Term applied to a flat or relief collage of collected junk. It is associated with KURT SCHWITTERS, who apparently invented the word when cutting out the word ‘Commerzbank' from a newspaper for a collage he was making.
Mario Merz was an Italian artist in the Arte Povera movement, and the husband of Marisa Merz. Fascinated with light, space and matter, Merz's work tended toward the utilitarian found object, but with a twist.
Sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy, whose lard and felt installations, bold lectures on art and creativity and career long dedication earned him a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Italian Arte Povera artists Mario Merz ...
In the Beginning is MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day, by Dietmar Elger.
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Arte Povera - Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Piero Manzoni, Alighiero Boetti
Color field painting - Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Sam Francis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler ...
Collaboration with Kurt Schwitters on the latter's periodical "Merz" in 1923. Published, with El Lissitzky, "Isms in Art," in which he defined DaDa: "Dadaism has launched an attack on the fine arts.
named by the critic Germano Celant in 1967, endured through the 1970s, concerned with metaphorical treatments to do with nature, culture, history, and contemporary life. Artists associated with Arte Povera include Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, ...
 See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Sculpture, Avant-garde
  
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