Marisol Escobar was a Venezuelan artist who also worked in France and the US. She was justly celebrated in the 1960s, faded from public view after that, and then was justly revived. She passed away about six years ago.
You might say that her sculptures were influenced by Picasso. Probably more accurate to say that she saw the liberty that was possible with modern art, and took full advantage of it. Her work has a healthy sense of play.
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It's been a long while since I've looked at any of Marisol's work but I see what you mean about her playfulness in the images and sculptures she created. Self-Portrait Looking at The Last Supper is a fascinating interpretation of the famous Da Vinci painting. The way she mixed sculpture and painting is quite interesting and, except for the fact she became a well-known pop artist, a number of her pieces remind me of the childlike innocence of naive art that softens reality.
I don't know if I've mentioned her to you before but Yayoi Kusama is an artist I've long admired. There's a quality to her work that transcends anything ordinary and has done for a long time. In her 90s now, Yanoi continues to produce wonderfully imaginative work and every evening returns to the mental hospital where she's lived voluntarily since 1973. Considering her history and her visions that seems appropriate.
Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper is a fascinating work. There's a delightful surprise in seeing Leonardo's painting rendered in three dimensions, on the same level as Marisol's representation of herself. While she had years of experience as an artist and built up a kind of skill, she was able to hang onto the unforced quality of a child or a naïve artist.
It is cool knowing that Yayoi Kusama is still out there making new art. I don't know her all that well, but I like the exuberance of her work. Seurat is known for his pointillist paintings that utilized small bits of color to create an image that was greater than the sum of its part. To some degree she seems to be doing something similar in 3d space.
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