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1930 Paris, France - 2016 Manhattan, New York. Known for: Pop and folk art imagery, assemblage, modernist genre.
Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling... Read full biography
Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 85. The cause was... Read full biography
Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 85. The cause was pneumonia, Julia M. Ruthizer, her executor, said. María Sol Escobar, who adopted Marisol as her name when she began exhibiting in New York in the late 1950s, introduced a distinctive new element to... Read full biography
Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 85. The cause was pneumonia, Julia M. Ruthizer, her executor, said. María Sol Escobar, who adopted Marisol as her name when she began exhibiting in New York in the late 1950s, introduced a distinctive new element to the emerging Pop Art lexicon. Influenced equally by pre-Columbian art and the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg, she began constructing tableaus of carved wooden figures embellished with drawings, fabric and found objects. The Family, exhibited at... Read full biography
Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 85. The cause was pneumonia, Julia M. Ruthizer, her executor, said. María Sol Escobar, who adopted Marisol as her name when she began exhibiting in New York in the late 1950s, introduced a distinctive new element to the emerging Pop Art lexicon. Influenced equally by pre-Columbian art and the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg, she began constructing tableaus of carved wooden figures embellished with drawings, fabric and found objects. The Family, exhibited at the Stable Gallery in 1962, showed a painted-wood family reminiscent of Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the Dust Bowl: a seat... Read full biography
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Keywords (44)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Silhouettist
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Silhouettes, Silhouette Portraiture
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Howard Jepson Institute of Art, Student
- •Moore College of Art and Design for Women, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
- •Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
Added Description
- •Abstract Sculpture Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Latin American
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Stable Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art