ARMAN was a French-born American artist known for his unique style of found-object sculpture and paintings. In his sculpture, he works with “accumulations” and destruction/ re-composition of objects while in his two dimensional pieces, he uses the imprints or traces of objects covered in ink to form the painting itself. The silk screen print “Violins and Brushes” is a classic example ARMAN’s work using his recurring image of the violin. It was created around the same time as his gigantic monument “Hope for Peace” at the Ministry of National Defense in Yarze, Lebanon.