women in art
22. april. 08
The artist who did the most to humanize Minimalism without sentimentalizing it was Eva Hesse. Dying of brain cancer at thirty-four, an age at which most artist's careers are barely under way, she left a truncated body of work but one of remarkable power: an instrument of feeling that spoke of an inner life, sometimes fraught with anxiety... I first learned about Eva Hesse while I was in undergraduate school, studying art history at Brown. Hesse had the capacity to entertain doubt, be vulnerable and see absurdity. She walked an exquisitely defined edge joining proportion and emotion. Looking at her work is inspiring, gripping, challenging, and forceful.
Kathleen
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What a beautiful blog. So imaginative and lovely. I will be back! Thanks, Roxanne
kathleen,
hi from france -as a Brown grad who studied medicine and then used art in my practice and personally I was touched by your post on Eva Hesse -I loved the forms,the light and the hanging installation-reminds me of christiane corbat,from ri who did HANGING OUT! she was a dear friend,mentor and collaborator who died, too, of cancer,mesothelioma- her work lives on in all who view her pieces as does Eva Hesse's. I call it heartfelt imprinting -art has a capacity to be indelible !