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MAGICAL MIXTURES PB

出版	Smithsonian, 1991-04-17
主題	Art / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Sculpture & InstallationArt / Subjects & Themes / Portraits
ISBN	15609804279781560980421
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I21QAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Except for a few independent souls who steadfastly have refused to honor the vanity of their subjects or the aesthetic timidity of patrons, portraiture in our age has been left, for the most part, to painters and sculptors with a decidedly conventional approach to their craft. Given the fact that those who make portraits for a living must satisfy not only sitters and their families but also the corporations, government officials, and others who commission likenesses, it is hardly surprising that these artists have been reluctant to push their art to the limits of the avant-garde. With the notable exception of portraits of artists, writers, and composers, most of the work by contemporary artists acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, or shown in its special exhibitions, has tended to reflect this conservative aesthetic, leading some to the conclusion that there is an unbridgeable gulf between imaginative art and portraiture. A look at any of the remarkable three-dimensional portraits produced by Marisol over the past thirty years will immediately correct this misapprehension. Marisol has created a series of perfectly recognizable images that exist in a context entirely of her own creation. Her people emerge from blocks of polished or painted wood, or form a construction of "found" objects, and somehow she manages to satirize a physical characteristic, to comment upon the way a subject presents himself or herself to the world, or to suggest an affectionate relationship. Although Marisol's style is manifestly of the twentieth century, her incorporation of objects that relate to the subject's life or work is reminiscent of the work of much older artists, and though her work is at home in museums and art galleries, her use and combination of materials and textures suggest that she has been enchanted by the folk artists of the three continents on which she has worked...." --