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- María Sol Escobar, the Venezuelan American artist known as Marisol, believed in the power of museums to educate and inspire change.
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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.
Born María Sol Escobar in Paris to an elite Venezuelan family, Marisol was referred to by Andy Warhol as the “first girl artist with glamour.” 1 By the early ’60s, her face—and sculptures—were everywhere.
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Created nearly five hundred years after Leonardo da Vinci’s mural painting, The Last Supper (ca. 1495–98), Marisol’s Self-Portrait Looking at The Last Supper combines defining elements of her artistic practice—found materials, art historical subjects, popular culture, satire, and self-portraiture—into one ambitious monumental ...
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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...
Aug 13, 2024 · From 1964 to 1993, Marisol was represented by the New York gallery led by Buffalo native Sidney Janis, who fostered the artist’s career. This history seems to have inspired her decision to...
Jul 24, 2024 · By the 1950s, Marisol had become a notable figure in the New York art scene. Her work, which often blended Pop Art, folk art, and surrealism, was characterised by life-sized wooden sculptures adorned with found objects, plaster casts, and painted surfaces.
