Transcript Power Point on Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson
Contemporary Abstract Sculptor
1899 - 1998
What was she thinking?
Louise Nevelson Film Trailer
Her story…
Born on September 23, 1899, in Kiev, Russia, Louise
Nevelson studied Cubist art with Hans Hofmann and
later at the Art Students League in New York City.
Nevelson began to attract attention in the early 1940s,
and gained wide fame in the 1950s when museums
began buying her work.
She is now considered one of America's most innovative
sculptors. Nevelson died in New York City in 1988.
How did she do this?
“Combines” or
Assemblages
What formal elements is she using
predominately?
Royal Tide IV 1968
Louise Nevelson is an assemblage artist.
Assemblage is where the artist finds things that
are not normally intended for artwork then puts
them together into something new. Nevelson
collected scraps of wood littering the streets of
New York City. If you look at the sculpture
above, you'll see she found old, busted hunks of
wood, old toilet seats, lamps, spindles from stairs
and table legs. She builds these found objects
into a single work of art, a series of panels or
boxes in which the objects create a
shallowspace and a rough texture. They pull your
eye through the sculpture from one thin line of
wood to a circle to a blanked wall of scrap.
Nevelson's art is abstract, not meant to be
anything in the real world, but it often reminds
you of an idea such as a movement or religion.
Unlike much sculpture, which invites you to
look at it from all sides, Nevelson's work is
meant to be seen mainly from the front.
Moon Star Zag VIII
Palace
Your title?
How is her art
communicating?
What emotions does
it evoke?
Could a 2 year old
do this?
New Continent, 1962