10. When we finished, we investigated
about the artist and her paintings or
sculptures, and here you are the
information about each of them.
11. Nikki de Saint Phalle
biographyCatherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29
October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French
sculptor, painter, and film maker..
She created "Shooting Paintings" in the early
1960s. These pieces of art were polythene
bags of paints in human forms covered in
white plaster. The piece were shot at to
open the bags of paint to create the image.
12. After the "Shooting paintings" came a period
when she explored the various roles of women.
She made life size dolls of women, such as
brides and mothers giving birth. They were
primarily made of plaster over a wire
framework and plastic toys, then painted all
white.
Influenced by Gaudí’s Parc Güell, decided that
she wanted to make something similar, she
bought a land in Tuscany, called Giardino dei
Tarocchi in Italian, contains sculptures of the
symbols found on Tarot cards.
Niki de Saint Phalle died of lung disease in
California on 21 May 2002.
13. Giardino dei
Tarocchi
The Tarot Garden is a park located in the artistic
Garavicchio, near Pescia Fiorentina, communal
village of Capalbio in Tuscany, Italy, designed by the
French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, Peopled
with statues inspired by the shapes of the major
Arcana of the Tarot.
14. Queen califa's magical circle garden
Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden is a
mosaic masterpiece and the only sculpture
garden in USA created by this amazing artist
It is often closed during heavy rains.
15. Georgia O´Keefe biography
Georgia O´keeffe
was born in
Wisconsin in 1887
and she died in San
Vicente de Santa
Fe in 1986.
In 1905 she
graduated from the
secondary school
and she decided to
study art.
16. After working as a commercial artist in Chicago,
Georgia went to New Mexico. She painted many
paintings there.
Georgia retired because she had vision problems.
She lived in her house on Ghost Ranch or in her
other house in Abiquiu.
Three years later she continued painting in New
Mexico. She used the technique of oil on canvas
and watercolour, but she was retired.
"Fill the space beautifully. That's what art means
to me. "
17. Paintings
Georgia is known for
her landscapes and
for her paintings of
desert flowers.
Her love for flowers
as an object of
painting, was also
explained by her
saying that if you
look closely a flower,
has everyone in front
of him.
18. Paintings
For many critics,
psychiatrists and the
general public its
flowers are sex
symbols. The petals
are fleshy woman
intimate parts and
pistils’ abundant
petals represents
the uterus.
23. Louise bourgeois
Her birthname is
Louise Joséphine
Bourgeois.
She was born on the 25 of December 1911,
in Paris, France and she died the 31 of
May 2010 (aged 98) in New York City,
United States.
24. Louise Bourgeois was a renowned French-
American artist and sculptor.
She is one of the most important artists in
modern and contemporary art, and known for
her spider structures.
In the late 1940s, after moving to New York City
with her American husband, Robert Goldwater
she turned to sculpture.
Though her works are abstract, they look like
human figures and express themes of
betrayal.
25. Sculptures
.
The Arch of beyond physical limits. Hysteria
(1993), by Louise Bourgeois in bronze and
covered with a patina of silver nitrate. It is a
symbol of a metabody
This figure has physical, emotional, and
psychological aspect of pain and fear.
Bourgeois has drawn the arch of hysteria as
theorized and represented by the nineteenth-
century neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-
1893).
