Fine Art Friday: Louise Nevelson, How to Make Art on a Tight Budget

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louisenevelsonrichardavedon1-240x300“I fell in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color… Black is the most aristocratic color of all… You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.” (Louise Nevelson)

 

What do you get a one year old for his birthday? I”m not an expert when it comes to little ones, but I do know that they love boxes, paper, and are overall curious little humans. So when my nephew celebrated his first birthday, I gave him a box filled with a few plastic cones ( I have tons of them, as all of my weaving yarn comes on them, and as any good artist, I don’t throw things away, because I might be able to make something), and some paper. He was thrilled with his “creativity kit,” discovering that he could place the cones on his head, stack and unstack them, and best of all he could roar into them.

 

When it comes to being creative, so often we think that we need to have the best and most expensive supplies, artist, Louise Nevelson does an excellent job at showing us just how wrong we are.


Nevelson created sculptures, usually one color, out of found objects. Broken wooden furniture thrown into dumpsters or strewn along the street, became her art supply store.

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  1. Born September, 23 1899 in Kiev, Russia
  2. In 1905 her and her family immigrated to the United States and lived in Rockland Maine.
  3. In 1943 Nevelson began creating her “ Farm assemblages”, made from wood and found objects
  4. Nevelson was influenced by many artist, one of them was painter William de Kooning
  5. The following art movements impacted her work:
    1. Abstract Expressionism
    2. Minimalism
    3. Feminist Art
  6. Nevelson influenced the work of Pennsylvania artist Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and Diego Rivera.
  7. Nevelson was one of the few women artist working in sculpture
  8. Nevelson created art from 1940-1988
  9. While Nevelson’s personal style was flamboyant, her sculptures were always monochromatic ( one color).
  10. Nevelson created high relief sculptures, sculptures in the round, and shadow boxes

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