In late 2023, the largest retrospective of the artist Marisol began its journey at the first of four museums. Marisol (full name: Marisol Escobar) was a French-born Venezuelan artist who is associated ...
“My work is sculpture, figurative, life size, and socially conscious”—that’s how Venezuelan-born American sculptor Marisol Escobar (1930-2016) once described her practice. Though she emerged alongside ...
A major work by one of the most influential pop art creators in the world is now part of the permanent collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art. “Magritte II,” a sculpture by the Venezuelan-American ...
Marisol Escobar grew up in Venezuela and inspired some of the most successful artists of the 20th century. An exhibit at the Perez Art Museum hopes to give the artist her spotlight back. The artist ...
Marisol Escobar—or Marisol, as she is known professionally—studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, “I painted like a Hofmann student.” But though she learned ...
The decade of the 1960s brought with it a pop culture explosion that enveloped music, fashion, film and visual art. In one sonic boom, a new multi-dimensional world of creation opened up and two ...
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Who is Marisol Sol Escobar? What was her contributions to art and why do we remember her now? These are some of the many questions that are being answered in a new exhibition at Pérez Art Museum (PAMM ...
The speckles of glitter in the resin of Maritza Lacayo’s pink, blue, and yellow-colored glasses shine as they reflect the setting sun seeping in from the large, open windows. Pérez Art Museum Miami ...
CHICAGO — In his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, the famous pop artist considered the surface nature of his life and art in a very deadpan manner. He gives equal ...
The decade of the 1960s brought with it a pop culture explosion that enveloped music, fashion, film and visual art. In one sonic boom, a new multi-dimensional world of creation opened up and two ...