Artist exploration
Artist: Eva Hesse
Born: (Year and location) January 11, 1936 - Hamburg, Germany
Died (Year and location) May 29, 1970 - New York, New York
What type of artist: (I.e. painter, sculptor, photographer etc.)
German-American Sculptor
Art Period(s): Minimalism, Feminist Art
What stands out as the most important facts about the artist?
1. Much of Hesse's work might be thought of as a form of poetic, three-dimensional montage, a conjoining of disparate parts culled from diverse sources and combined, or arranged in ways that suggest moments of quiet reflection on the world around us.
2.Hesse's life was plagued by various kinds of physical and emotional hardship, ranging from political persecution to familial illness and depression, not least of all her eventual suffering and demise from cancer. Nevertheless, Hesse boldly forged ahead and made the most of her professional circumstances, ultimately to create abstract and endlessly evocative works free of any socio-political agenda.
3. Hesse was among the first artists of the 1960s to experiment with the fluid contours of the organic world of nature, as well as the simplest of artistic gestures. Some observers see in these qualities latent, proto-feminist references to the female body; others find in Hesse's languid forms expressions of wit, whimsy, and a sense of spontaneous invention with casually found, or "everyday" materials.
What are some of this artist's most well known works?
1. Hang Up (1966)
2. Metronomic Irregularity II (1966)
3. Accession II (1967-68)
What makes this person's art great?
Eva Hesse is one of the most renowned American artists to come of age in the immediate aftermath of The Abstract Expressionists. Having fled her native Germany during the rise of Nazism, Hesse was originally schooled in American abstract painting and commercial design practices. She originally pursued a career in commercial textile design in New York City, but Hesse's practice as an expressionist painter led her to increasingly experiment with industrial and every-day, or "found" materials, such as rope, string, wire, rubber, and fiberglass. Reducing her means in the spirit of Minimalism, Hesse explored by way of the simplest materials how to suggest a wide range of organic associations, psychological moods, and what might be called proto-feminist, sexual innuendo. She also experimented with expressing semi-whimsical states of mind rarely explored in the modern era until her all-too-brief debut. Thus Hesse arrived quickly at a new kind of abstract painting, as well as a kind of so-called "eccentric," freestanding sculpture.
Why did you choose this artist?
I choose this artist because she was professionally trained as an abstract painter and commercial designer. Hesse is a paradigmatic postwar American artist, much like Ellsworth Kelly, who regarded painting not as a two-dimensional surface, but as an object on the wall to be extended into the space of the viewer before it. Mimicking the organic vulnerability of the human body itself, work by Hesse seems to take on a tentative or even ephemeral life of its own, its material density apparently enlivened by some invisible, psychological momentum.
Born: (Year and location) January 11, 1936 - Hamburg, Germany
Died (Year and location) May 29, 1970 - New York, New York
What type of artist: (I.e. painter, sculptor, photographer etc.)
German-American Sculptor
Art Period(s): Minimalism, Feminist Art
What stands out as the most important facts about the artist?
1. Much of Hesse's work might be thought of as a form of poetic, three-dimensional montage, a conjoining of disparate parts culled from diverse sources and combined, or arranged in ways that suggest moments of quiet reflection on the world around us.
2.Hesse's life was plagued by various kinds of physical and emotional hardship, ranging from political persecution to familial illness and depression, not least of all her eventual suffering and demise from cancer. Nevertheless, Hesse boldly forged ahead and made the most of her professional circumstances, ultimately to create abstract and endlessly evocative works free of any socio-political agenda.
3. Hesse was among the first artists of the 1960s to experiment with the fluid contours of the organic world of nature, as well as the simplest of artistic gestures. Some observers see in these qualities latent, proto-feminist references to the female body; others find in Hesse's languid forms expressions of wit, whimsy, and a sense of spontaneous invention with casually found, or "everyday" materials.
What are some of this artist's most well known works?
1. Hang Up (1966)
2. Metronomic Irregularity II (1966)
3. Accession II (1967-68)
What makes this person's art great?
Eva Hesse is one of the most renowned American artists to come of age in the immediate aftermath of The Abstract Expressionists. Having fled her native Germany during the rise of Nazism, Hesse was originally schooled in American abstract painting and commercial design practices. She originally pursued a career in commercial textile design in New York City, but Hesse's practice as an expressionist painter led her to increasingly experiment with industrial and every-day, or "found" materials, such as rope, string, wire, rubber, and fiberglass. Reducing her means in the spirit of Minimalism, Hesse explored by way of the simplest materials how to suggest a wide range of organic associations, psychological moods, and what might be called proto-feminist, sexual innuendo. She also experimented with expressing semi-whimsical states of mind rarely explored in the modern era until her all-too-brief debut. Thus Hesse arrived quickly at a new kind of abstract painting, as well as a kind of so-called "eccentric," freestanding sculpture.
Why did you choose this artist?
I choose this artist because she was professionally trained as an abstract painter and commercial designer. Hesse is a paradigmatic postwar American artist, much like Ellsworth Kelly, who regarded painting not as a two-dimensional surface, but as an object on the wall to be extended into the space of the viewer before it. Mimicking the organic vulnerability of the human body itself, work by Hesse seems to take on a tentative or even ephemeral life of its own, its material density apparently enlivened by some invisible, psychological momentum.
The work of art I am critiquing is called Metronomic Irregularity II
The artist's name is Eva Hesse
This is what I see when I look at the artwork.
When I look at this pieces of artwork I see someone breaking the rules of traditional art. Here we see Hesse interested in something relatively free of erotic overtones, but just as extraordinary, by marrying Minimalist forms with Expressionist gesture. Indeed, the rectangle pieces of slate with equal spaces of blank wall between them utilize the formal, highly reductive vocabulary of Minimalism.
All art is made using a variety of art elements: line, shape, color, texture and space. The one or two elements that stand out in this piece of work are:
Indeed, the square pieces of slate with equal spaces of blank wall between them utilize the formal, highly reductive vocabulary of Minimalism. This visually muted impression is overcome, however, by the twisted fibers that approximate the effects of early 1950s "Action Painting". The push and pull between these different sources of inspiration and such starkly contrasting textures create a dissonance that gives Metronomic Irregularity a unique intensity, evoking at once the beat of a clock and the disarray of an all-enveloping windstorm.
Artists create a mood with their work. Sometimes the mood is happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry. Sometimes, the art makes the viewer feel alone. The mood for this artwork is
The mood for this artwork is confusing. The artist wanted to make a pieces of art that over sexualizes because during her time period women rights were still if-y. This art to me represents equality amongst everybody.
Artists try to communicate or send messages with their art work. What message do you think the artist was trying to send with this work?
The biggest message that the artist wanted to portray is equality amongst every body and stop over sexualizing everything that people do.
I like this artwork because of the artist meaning for making such a beautiful pieces of art.
The artist's name is Eva Hesse
This is what I see when I look at the artwork.
When I look at this pieces of artwork I see someone breaking the rules of traditional art. Here we see Hesse interested in something relatively free of erotic overtones, but just as extraordinary, by marrying Minimalist forms with Expressionist gesture. Indeed, the rectangle pieces of slate with equal spaces of blank wall between them utilize the formal, highly reductive vocabulary of Minimalism.
All art is made using a variety of art elements: line, shape, color, texture and space. The one or two elements that stand out in this piece of work are:
Indeed, the square pieces of slate with equal spaces of blank wall between them utilize the formal, highly reductive vocabulary of Minimalism. This visually muted impression is overcome, however, by the twisted fibers that approximate the effects of early 1950s "Action Painting". The push and pull between these different sources of inspiration and such starkly contrasting textures create a dissonance that gives Metronomic Irregularity a unique intensity, evoking at once the beat of a clock and the disarray of an all-enveloping windstorm.
Artists create a mood with their work. Sometimes the mood is happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry. Sometimes, the art makes the viewer feel alone. The mood for this artwork is
The mood for this artwork is confusing. The artist wanted to make a pieces of art that over sexualizes because during her time period women rights were still if-y. This art to me represents equality amongst everybody.
Artists try to communicate or send messages with their art work. What message do you think the artist was trying to send with this work?
The biggest message that the artist wanted to portray is equality amongst every body and stop over sexualizing everything that people do.
I like this artwork because of the artist meaning for making such a beautiful pieces of art.