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- Marisol (born May 22, 1930, Paris, France—died April 30, 2016, New York, New York, U.S.) was an American sculptor of boxlike figurative works combining wood and other materials and often grouped as tableaux. She rose to fame during the 1960s and all but disappeared from art history until the 21st century.
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Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor [1] born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. [2] She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade. [3]
The Venezuelan American artist, born María Sol Escobar, created abstract and surreal sculptures of people from wood and casts of her own body. Learn about her inspiration, introspection, and ingenuity.
Marisol Escobar is most commonly referred to as Marisol after she renounced her surname in order to ‘stand out from the crowd’. The artist, whose practice revolved around a negotiation of identity, spent her childhood between Paris, Venezuela (her parents’ native country) and the USA.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, pop culture embraced Marisol and her work. She became part of the New York art scene, often at the side of Andy Warhol. She created assemblages unlike any other work being done at the time, working with plaster casts, wooden blocks, woodcarvings, drawings, photography, paint, and pieces of contemporary clothing. Experimentin...
Marisol is best known for her bright, boxy sculptures of people representing a broad range of contemporary life. She especially liked to depict families and often added family pets, as in her delightful Women and Dog 1963-1964 sculpture. In addition to sculpture, Marisol also created works on paper, using colored pencils, crayons, and paint, and us...
Marisol, whose original name was Maria Sol Escobar, was born in Paris on May 22, 1930 to Venezuelan parents. Her parents were from wealthy families and travelled frequently. They lived off assets from oil and real estate investments. Marisol’s mother, Josefina Escobar, committed suicide in 1941, when Marisol was eleven. The tragedy affected Marisol...
At the beginning of her career, Marisol painted in the Abstract Expressionist style, but in 1953 she decided to take up sculpting. “It started as a kind of rebellion,” she told arts journalist Grace Glueck. “Everything was so serious. I was very sad myself and the people I met were so depressing. I started doing something funny so that I would beco...
At her high point, Marisol was the woman artist to watch. Her art was on the cover of Time magazine. Gloria Steinem profiled her for Glamour. She was included in a Life magazine special issue, The Take-Over Generation: One Hundred of the Most Important Young Men and Women in the United States. But Marisol didn’t like the limelight. In the late 1960...
Today, her works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. The biggest collection of her art is at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo...
Mar 26, 2012 · Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade.
Oct 16, 2023 · María Sol Escobar, the Venezuelan American artist known as Marisol, believed in the power of museums to educate and inspire change. As a child, she visited institutions around the world as she moved with her peripatetic family from Paris to the United States and Caracas, and later traveled frequently on her own.
Marisol Escobar, later known as simply “Marisol,” was an American artist best known for her carved wooden sculptures, which often incorporated photographs and painted elements. View Marisol Escobar’s 275 artworks on artnet.
