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- 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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The body of work that emerged – comprised of heterogeneous figure-sculpture-portraits of assembled carved and painted wood – manifested her omnipresent concern for portraiture and representation, combined with a renewed attention to elements from popular culture, photographs and found objects.
Sep 29, 2023 · Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), the Paris-born, Venezuelan American artist who went by her first name and became one of the most famous figures of the US Pop art movement in the 1960s, continued...
- Benjamin Sutton
Who was Marisol (1930–2016) and why had I never heard of her? Though I corrected my ignorance, Marisol’s odd obscurity endured. “Odd” because in the early to mid-1960s, she was one of the most famous and recognizable women artists in the world.
- Ara Osterweil
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 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.
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]
