Artistic space #82 - Be careful with the shotgun, the life, and work of Niki de Saint Phalle
Today I bring you an artist who is perhaps one of the most controversial for the type of art I develop, her feminist ideas make her one of the pioneers in this field, at a time when women do not have the rights they have won through the last century and the beginning of this new millennium. Let us learn about the life and rebellious work of Niki De Saint Phalle. Come with me.
France is born in 1930 date that coincides with one of the first crises of capitalism that the world knew. Her family was dedicated precisely to the banks and just as they were wealthy they lost all the money, after two years she moved to New York where she grew up, she studied in a convent from which she was thrown for grating classic sculptures, and the rebellion of our artist was already beginning to appear.
At the age of 18 she left home, at that time she began to work as a model for Vogue and Life and at the same time studied theater, she presented some personality disorders that ended in crises of anxiety and panic, it was just after leaving hospital when she began to see art as a tool to combat her nerves and channel her rage, by then she had signed her first paintings, thus sealing a lifestyle that would change her completely.
By 1960 she was converted into a subversive artist, inspired by techniques of Pollock the painter of the previous publication, devised a very innovative system to paint, the use of a shotgun to shoot paint, so I present this work to a group of people on the island of Malibu, so from that moment impact in the media that it was frequent to see her in museums with a 22 caliber rifle to make more paintings in the presence of visitors to art galleries.
She had contact with artists of her time like Jasper Johns of whom already made a publication, Marcel Duchamp introduced Dalí, both created an explosive work, it was a bull of plaster that was subjected to the explosion of fireworks the impact of knowing Dalí took her to visit Spain, where he makes a work called The Garden of Tarot where he built 22 sculptures with ceramic tiles and crystals, a kind of tribute to another great art, Gaudí.
His technique was mixed because there was some surrealism mixed with pop and traditional elements of his native country and his country of breeding. These techniques were changing throughout his career, much of his inspiration is due to the different artists he met at different times in his artistic career.
A large part of his work is dedicated to denunciation, criticism of the beauty imposed by the media, conflicts such as the cold war, highlighting a unique piece in which the heads of the leaders involved in the cold war, Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, and other popular cultures such as Donald Duck and Santa Claus, stand out.
His last years of life were spent in San Diego - the United States, after battling a long illness in the lungs due to the use of paint throughout his life.
A woman who was born to give her best and give up the struggles and demands of women in an era where being rebellious and the woman was not an easy task.
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