Kurt Schwitters | Plan of Love | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Following World War I, Schwitters, who was associated with Dada, coined the term "Merz" to describe his enduring ambition to unify art and life. In Plan of Love, a Merzbild, or Merz picture, Schwitters combined seemingly worthless debris—advertisements, newspaper scraps, diagrams—into an ordered composition set within a handmade frame
Kurt Schwitters | Pinc | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Schwitters was associated with the "anti-art" Dada movement in Germany in the 1920s, though always maintained a sense of independence, christening his own work – which ranged from painting and collage to installation and writing – Merz
