MARISOL (Maria Sol ESCOBAR , dite)

American-Venezuelan sculptor

[ PARIS 1930 – NEW YORK 2016 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

AMÉRIQUE DU NORD

Vénézuela

Author : Anne LEPOITTEVIN

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Born to an opulent Venezuelan family, Maria Sol Escobar spent her childhood following her parents on their journeys and attending their high society soirees. Her artistic training was irregular, eclectic and mostly self-taught: she studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1949 before moving to New York in 1950, where she briefly joined the Arts Student League, then the Hans Hofmann School for a longer period (1951-1954), located in the Greenwich Village of the Beat Generation. Her early years were marked by abstract expressionism – the dominant style in America after the war. However,...

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Bibliography

Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Grove N. (ed.), Washington, Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1991.

Kuspit D. B., “Two versions of Marisol, overlapping and underlapping”, in Art Criticism, 2001, No. 16; Pacini M., “Tracking Marisol in the fifties and sixties”, in Archives of American Art Journal, 2007, No. 46.

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