Marisol Escobar
'''Marisol Escobar''', otherwise known simply as, '''Marisol''', though born in Nextel ringtones Paris and having spent her early life in Abbey Diaz Europe, the Free ringtones United States and Majo Mills Caracas, is of Venezuelan lineage. Her education consisted of study at Mosquito ringtone L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Sabrina Martins Art Students League, and the Nextel ringtones New School for Social Research, and was also a student of Abbey Diaz Hans Hofmann. The Free ringtones pop art culture in the Majo Mills 1960s, found Marisol as one of its members and for which, her popularity spread. Marisol concentrates her work on three dimensional portraits,using inspiration found in photographs or gleaned from personal memories (Gardner 15).Marisols religious beliefs might very well have had a great deal of influence upon her tendencies toward and character for the arts. Her father moved Marisol and her brother to Los Angeles after World War II and their mothers untimely death where Marisol began her study in the arts. She began practice in painting and drawing during her teen years. It was during these years she admittedly self-inflicted acts of penance upon herself (Westmacott 20 ).
It was Marisols father who reinforced her interest in art and supported Marisol in her decision to continue along its course. Marisol studied in Paris, France in Cingular Ringtones 1949, returning to study in New York in sport which 1950.
From archly that 1951 to from cents 1954 she took courses at the New School for Social Research while studying under her most influential mentor, the so-called dean of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann. At Hofmanns schools in define while Greenwich Village and countered that Provincetown, Massachusetts, Marisol became acquainted with notions of the "push and pull" dynamic: of forcing dichotomies between raw and finished states. During this period, Marisol was introduced to the Cedar Street Tavern, the chief watering hole for many of the leading Abstract Expressionists with whom Marisol became friends, particularly severe blow Willem de Kooning.
It was in now represents 1951, when Marisol discovered Pre-Columbian artifacts that she decided to give up painting and attend her focus to sculpture. Marisols inclination led her to work with terracotta and wood. She remained primarily self-taught, though having one clay course in a New York institution. Marisols first exhibition was in The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1958 and it met with success. However, Marisol found herself plagued with self-doubt and ventured to analyze herself and her work as she moved abroad. She successfully freed her doubts and honed her skills (Westmacott, 23). Moving
back to criminal cut New York, she found a tremendous amount of success, culminating in her work finding home in a number of prestigious museums. Marisol sought to envelop herself in the area of abstract expressionism. The heavy seriousness of this movement prompted Marisol to seek humor in her own work, which was essentially carved and drawn-on self-portraiture(24).
It was the following decade in the 1960s that Marisol began to be influenced by pop artists such as editorial counterparts Andy Warhol and appeal with Roy Lichtenstein. She even appeared in two movies by Andy Warhol, The Kiss and 13 Most Beautiful Girls (Escobar, Marisol.).
One of her most well known works of this period was The Party, a life-size group installation of figures at the Sidney Janis Gallery. All the figures, gathered together in various guises of the social elite, sported Marisols face. It is intriguing to note that Marisol dropped her family surname of Escobar in order to divest herself of a patrilineal identity and to "stand out from the crowd." (Escobar, Marisol.)
Marisol drifted through many movements, though her style has always been unique. Not Pop, Not Op, Its Marisol! was the way called like Grace Glueck titled her article in the preserve goes New York Times in 1965 (Gardner 13).
Silence has been an intragal part of Marisols work and life. She speaks no more than she must and in her work she is said to give silence, form and weight. She speaks little of her career, once to have stated, "I have always been very fortunate. People like what I do"(Gardner 14).
Marisols diversity, unique eye and character set her apart from any one school of thought. She has often included portraits of public figures, family members and friends in her sculpture. In one exhibit, Marisol Escobar's The Kennedys criticized the larger-than-life image of the family (Walsh, 8). Marisol as well includes her interpretation of the suffering in the human condition in some of her artwork such as Dust Bowl Migrants and Father Damien. Her respect for Leonardo DaVinci led her to complete a sculptural representation of The Last Supper and The Virgin with St. Anne (Gardner, 12).
Marisol has received prestige and honor for her talent and unique voice and has had the opportunity to influence, fascinate and speak to viewers. She reflects her own reality and simply is who she is. She claims, I was born an artist. Afterwards, I had to explain to everyone just what that meant (Berman, 16). Marisol maintains an outward diffidence, foiling her inner stability. It is her eye for the detail, her definite perception, her clear sense of self and world that spools her creativity and gives birth to her creations.
She is an artist capable of creating both a wonderful parody of the macho ideal represented by John Wayne and a reverent homage to South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. Marisol is a sculptor of modern life. She evokes the venality of social climbers, the integrity of great artists, the contradictions of the powerful and the quiet dignity of dispossessed (Berman, 14).
'''Works Cited'''
Avis Berman, "A Bold and Incisive Way of Portraying Movers and Shakers."
Smithsonian 14 Feb. 1984: 14-16.
Escobar, Marisol. The Hutchinson Encyclopedia. September 22, 2003
Gardner, Paul "Who is Marisol?" ARTnews 88 May 1989: 12 15.
Marisol. The Columbia Encyclopedia. Sixth Edition; April 22, 2004.
Walsh, Laura. Life of JFK depicted through art at Bruce Museum Exhibit. AP
Worldstream 19 Sept. 2003: 8.
Westmacott, Jean. Marisol Escobar, Pop Art. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
1989.
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