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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]
Oct 16, 2023 · After employing this high-gloss treatment of wood for her ocean series, Marisol returned to roughly carved surfaces in sculptures, plaster-cast masks, and drawings over the next few decades. The exhibition surveys the artist’s long career, including drawings created in her last years as her memory declined.
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.
Marisol became a star of the art world in the late 1950s and ’60s for her large-scale painted and carved wood sculptures of people. Photographs inspired her groupings of figures, such a s The Fami ly. Deeply influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, she even made her own version of The Last Supper.
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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...
Jul 24, 2024 · Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American artist born in France in 1930 who became one of her generation’s leading yet often under-recognised figures. A new retrospective, the largest ever mounted of Marisol’s work, features nearly 250 artworks, with 39 pieces displayed for the first time during the tour.
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Marisol Escobar (b. 1930, Paris, France - d. 2016, New York, USA) embarked on a distinctive artistic journey characterized by vibrant sculptures and iconic chalkboard paintings.
