Arman was the son of an amateur painter, Antoine Fernandez, whom was an extremely vital person in the upbringing of Arman. Fernandez is a lover of light music who has conveyed this love to Arman, and given him a boundless space for his innovative minds, and inspired his passion in music. Arman entrepreneurial spirit is evidently shown when he was merely ten, in which he tried to sell his mass-produced landscape paintings of Nice to passers-by. Arman’s father was the victim of the 1929 financial crisis of Wall Street, which bought an end to the family fortune and they had to live with limited financial resources. Luckily, Arman need not be homeless given his commercial constructed minds. In 1954, Arman married Elaine Radigue to be his wife, Elaine was a musician and composer. Together, they had three children and Arman raised their children in the most creative ways as possible. Such as making his children to work as a salesman in his father’s shop, or to learn to harpoon fishing, all of which ar e distinct of the Ar man’s family.

Arman befriended with Yves Klein when he attended the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, they were the primary founders of Nouveau Realism (New Realism). New Realist proclaims that “New Realism ought provide new ways of perceiving the real.” As abstract as it may sound, they are apparent in the works of Arman, whereby he would often separate an item, and then r egroup them back again. It is in this process of separation, we are told to look at things in an emotionally detached ways, and therefore we could be more objective in looking at the real. As such, if we were to look at “Résurrection,” it is simply a stacked pile of violins; yet, it provoked a possibility to hear the music as they interact with each other.