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Born 1965 Verdun, France. Known for: Portrait, narrative, social commentary.
A painter whose images are executed in realist style and then arranged in ways that whose effects could rightly be described as surrealistic, allegorical, satirical, and humorous, Nicole Eisenman is... Read full biography
A painter whose images are executed in realist style and then arranged in ways that whose effects could rightly be described as surrealistic, allegorical, satirical, and humorous, Nicole Eisenman is known for her huge, vividly colored canvases as well as collages, drawings, found-object... Read full biography
A painter whose images are executed in realist style and then arranged in ways that whose effects could rightly be described as surrealistic, allegorical, satirical, and humorous, Nicole Eisenman is known for her huge, vividly colored canvases as well as collages, drawings, found-object assemblages, and murals. One of her paintings, Progress: Real and Imagined, completed in 2006, measures 8 by 30 feet, and with a WPA-like title has so many vignettes of people and their lives that the effect is... Read full biography
A painter whose images are executed in realist style and then arranged in ways that whose effects could rightly be described as surrealistic, allegorical, satirical, and humorous, Nicole Eisenman is known for her huge, vividly colored canvases as well as collages, drawings, found-object assemblages, and murals. One of her paintings, Progress: Real and Imagined, completed in 2006, measures 8 by 30 feet, and with a WPA-like title has so many vignettes of people and their lives that the effect is dizzying, 'Hogarthian' or as one critic wrote, "dyke punk". The latter description reflects a theme in her own life, which is lesbian motherhood, but not all of her motives carry personal messages nor it is necessary to understand each of them to... Read full biography
A painter whose images are executed in realist style and then arranged in ways that whose effects could rightly be described as surrealistic, allegorical, satirical, and humorous, Nicole Eisenman is known for her huge, vividly colored canvases as well as collages, drawings, found-object assemblages, and murals. One of her paintings, Progress: Real and Imagined, completed in 2006, measures 8 by 30 feet, and with a WPA-like title has so many vignettes of people and their lives that the effect is dizzying, 'Hogarthian' or as one critic wrote, "dyke punk". The latter description reflects a theme in her own life, which is lesbian motherhood, but not all of her motives carry personal messages nor it is necessary to understand each of them to appreciate her work. She has repeatedly expressed suspicion of abstracton, and generally has shown little interest in... Read full biography
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About Nicole Eisenman: Keywords
Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Art School
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Student
- •School of Visual Arts, New York, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty