I am back with another artist for you to be inspired by. This time its a little different in that my pick is an assemblage artist and sculptor , so you will be finding and arranging objects to photograph ! Perhaps objects from your recycling or otherwise found around the place, with a view to making a pleasing arrangement and photographing them mono-chromatically. Black on black and white on white flat-lay would be a good way to think about this also. I'm not expecting massive sculptures! but I hope her work gets you thinking creatively about still life.
“When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you're really bringing them to life—a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created."
- Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson was born in Russia (in the region we now know as Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1899. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was 6 years old to escape the torment that Ukrainian Jews were experiencing under the rule of the Tsarist Empire. At the start of the Russian Revolution her family fled and settled in Rockland, Maine.
In her 20s Louise moved to New York City to study drama and later enrolled in fine art classes at the Art Students League. She dabbled in painting and printmaking before dedicating herself to sculpture. It could be said that Louise was the queen bee of up-cycled art. She was completely taken with the beauty of every day items and discarded materials. Shards of wood, broken sections of furniture, loose parts carefully collected, rearranged and then painted in a single color. This monochrome dressing neutralized the details of the found object's former life and harmonized the pieces into a single magnificent work of art.
(quote pinched from the internet)
I’m new here “2 months” but I’m going to enter this competition with a little collage I put together. Not sure I have interpreted L. Nevelson’s work correctly. If what I enter is not what you’re looking for I will learn from it.
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Oh My! I’d like to see that photo. I tried to upload it this afternoon to this site, I’ll try again!
Thank you for your quick response.
Thank you Jackie!