10 Facts About Arman

Arman's father, Antonio Fernandez, an antiques dealer from Nice, was an amateur artist, photographer, and cellist.

Arman studied judo at a police school in Nice, where he met Yves Klein and Claude Pascal.

Arman had originally focused more attention on his abstract paintings, considering them to be of more consequence than his early accumulations of rubber stamps.

At his third solo exhibition held in Paris's Galerie Iris Clert in 1958, Arman showed some of his first 2D accumulations he called Cachets.

From 1959 to 1962, Arman developed his most recognizable style, beginning with his two most renowned concepts: Accumulations and Poubelles.

Arman became affiliated with the ZERO art movement based in Germany.

In 1961, Arman made his debut in the United States, the country which was to become his second home.

Arman can be seen in Andy Warhol's film Dinner at Daley's, a documentation of a dinner performance by the Fluxus artist Daniel Spoerri that Warhol filmed on March 5,1964.

Arman remained silent, eyes gazing over the pages of what seemed to be a newspaper, in this four-minute, 16mm black-and-white reel.

In 1953, Arman married electronic music composer Eliane Radigue and had two daughters, Marion and Anne and one son, Yves Arman.