"A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain."
 Sky Cathedral, 1958 wood, painted black. Allbright-Knox Museum Buffalo, N.Y. The boxes in the installation depict tiny little altars. Click here for a larger picture of Sky Cathedral. |
Louise Nevelson is
one of the most important female sculptors in America. The examples
of her work we are studying are called "Wall Sculptures".
She made most of her Wall Sculptures from wood (her father worked at a timber business here in Maine). She constructed them from individual boxes which she filled with odd bits and pieces of architectural shapes. She called herself an artchitect of shadows - as her three dimensional works revealed hidden inside, shadowy spaces. Nevelson never revealed what her art's meaning was -she wanted people to use their own imagination and create a private meaning for themselves.
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