Marisol found inspiration from personal memories and photographs she had seen. Her religious beliefs also had a huge impact on her art. After the death of her mother, Marisol stopped communicating regularly until she reached the age of twenty and self-inflicted pain onto herself. Marisol tied ropes around her waist and walked on her knees until they started to bleed all in emulation of saints and martyrs. Marisol’s father had a great influence on her in the beginning of her career (“Marisol Escobar- Biography”).
1960s pop-art culture found Marisol as one of its members, this increased her popularity and recognition. While she attended school, one of her mentors was Hans Hofmann. Marisol once stated Hofmann was “the only teacher I ever learned …show more content…
The piece was brought together with painted wooden blocks and several hat forms she found. This particular piece was the first of many pieces in the future that would make use of randomly found objects. To create Tea for Three she arranged three hat forms with clown faces in a straight line sitting atop at tall block. Serving as the characters’ collective body, the block was painted blue, red, yellow. These three colors represented the Venezuelan flag. The sculpture consists of two hands and appears to offer a cup of tea. Marisol’s sculptures can sometimes be interpreted in different ways. Tea for Three had many different meanings, some thought it was a political or social satire, a toy, or as a comment on collective bodies (Townsend …show more content…
Marisol also appeared in several movies by Andy Warhol, “The Kiss” and “13 Most Beautiful Girls”. Marisol started to accept that her fame could help her status and help boost her art career. But in 1968 she started to travel the world and in five years time she experimented with her art. Marisol started drawing with colored pecils and crayons and made her work more personal, darker, and more violent tan her earlier work. By the end of the 1970s she returned to her large wood scupltors of potraits and figure groups (Steinhauer
1960s pop-art culture found Marisol as one of its members, this increased her popularity and recognition. While she attended school, one of her mentors was Hans Hofmann. Marisol once stated Hofmann was “the only teacher I ever learned …show more content…
The piece was brought together with painted wooden blocks and several hat forms she found. This particular piece was the first of many pieces in the future that would make use of randomly found objects. To create Tea for Three she arranged three hat forms with clown faces in a straight line sitting atop at tall block. Serving as the characters’ collective body, the block was painted blue, red, yellow. These three colors represented the Venezuelan flag. The sculpture consists of two hands and appears to offer a cup of tea. Marisol’s sculptures can sometimes be interpreted in different ways. Tea for Three had many different meanings, some thought it was a political or social satire, a toy, or as a comment on collective bodies (Townsend …show more content…
Marisol also appeared in several movies by Andy Warhol, “The Kiss” and “13 Most Beautiful Girls”. Marisol started to accept that her fame could help her status and help boost her art career. But in 1968 she started to travel the world and in five years time she experimented with her art. Marisol started drawing with colored pecils and crayons and made her work more personal, darker, and more violent tan her earlier work. By the end of the 1970s she returned to her large wood scupltors of potraits and figure groups (Steinhauer