Assemblage sculpture louise nevelson biography

• Sky Cathedral ()
• Hanging Column (from Dawn&#;s Wedding Feast) ()
• Fourth Grade

  Louise Nevelson Assemblages

  Louise Nevelson (September 23, – April 17, ) was an American sculptor known for her large scale, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.   Her sculptures are usually created out of wood, mostly scrap wood or other "urban debris" that she found lying around the city, and then she would place those cut pieces in very intricate arrangements so that her sculptures appear puzzle-like.  A unique feature of her work is that they are often painted over in one plain color, often a MONOCHROMATIC black or white.  (Note: the word "monochromatic" means "one color.")
  

  Louise was born in Russia, but moved to the United States in with her parents to avoid the persecution of the Jewish families there.  Her family was well off (her father had a lumber and real estate business) and they were noted for supporting modern ideas, like letting women have the vote, and it was coming from that upbringing that Nevelson knew she wanted to be an artist.  By the s, she had moved away on her own and was struggling as a "starving artist" until she finally

  Summary of Louise Nevelson

  Louise Nevelson emerged in the art world amidst the dominance of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In her most iconic works, she utilized wooden objects that she gathered from urban debris piles to create her monumental installations - a process clearly influenced by the precedent of Marcel Duchamp'sfound object sculptures and readymades. Nevelson carefully arranged the objects in order to historicize the debris within the new, narrative context of her wall sculptures. The stories embodied within her works resulted from her cumulative experiences - as a Jewish child relocated to America from Russia, as an artist training in New York City and Germany, and as a hard-working, successful woman. Her innovative sculptural environments and success within the male-dominated realm of the New York gallery system inspired many younger artists, primarily those involved in installation art and the Feminist art movements.

  Accomplishments

  • Although Nevelson's artistic subject matter included her personal feelings about an uprooted childhood, clashing cultures, and nature's divinity, the common thread of feminine biography dominated her output.
  • Nevelson purpo

    Louise Nevelson ()

Assemblages

Between and Nevelson began experimenting with plastic art - in particular, abstract wooden assemblages. She also worked in aluminium, magnesium and lucite. Surrealism, Cubism, African and Pre-Columbian art were very important influences on her works which she exhibited at shows throughout the s.

Nevelson remained fairly unknown until she had her first solo exhibition at the Nierendorf Gallery in New York in She converted the gallery into a space which had overtones of prehistoric caves, an Egyptian tomb and a store window - all conjuring an ephemeral image of a world that has vanished or maybe only imagined. In the artist began her Farm assemblages which incorporated pieces of wood and found objects, as exemplified in works such as: The Circus, Menagerie Animal and Ancient City (all , Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama). She also created works made of terracotta, such as Moving Static Moving Figures (c, Whitney Museum, New York).

Development of Style: "Sculptured Walls"

In Nevelson began working at the British artist&#;s Stanley William Hayter's printmaking workshop known as Atelier Hayter was associated with Sur

Biographies you may also like