The Works of Eva Hesse Hesse was a young German artist who was born in 1936 and died in 1970 with only 34 years. Her sculptures and paintings were fragile and with disintegrating beauty which was the reason as to why she earned herself the description a minimalist artist. She immigrated to the United States in 1938 where her mother committed suicide in 1945. Hesse pursued an arts education degree at Yale University under the supervision of Josef Albers. She later created an astonishing body of art in the ten years leading to her demise from a brain tumor. Her art was an icon for many feminist artists in the early 1970s having remained an enigma up to the time of her death (Hatoum, M. & Renton, 2006, p. 3). Hesse’s earlier drawings were amoeba like forms, with impressive color that was an abstract art, yet untypical and hard to place in customary context. Each of the drawings carried the name ’untitled’ and disclosed Hesse’s desire not to be understood in relation to other abstract artists. The art expresses Hesse’s desire to undo established and conventional forms of painting and sculpture and establish her own genre. Her art was anti-biographical in a way excluding any imagery as to her own woes. She escaped from Nazi, Germany, and underwent the typical immigrant experience in the U.S. One of her pieces that are assumed a self-portrait depicts a young girl with an oversize face with her head leaning to the right. It is a product of heavy grey strokes with the hair shown in thick dripping yellow paint. The face sits on small shoulders alluding to the burdens of the world. The eyes are asymmetrical and appear to be piercing in grey matter. This painting was among a few other paintings of the young and melancholic girl, representing a child like style that became too personal and revealing in the artistic sense. In this regard, she gradually abandoned it (Hinshelwood, D., 1991, p. 4). From here, her progression was characterized by a desire to be a more analytical artist who was more interested in the process of issues rather than what they represented. However, from her earlier works, Hesse propagated a detailed focus on the eye, the gaze and the look. These paintings were black and grayish and were done in ink. They seem to show a wish to look out at the world while exploring the depths of her troubled person. The eye played the double role of seeing the world and transmitting the internal state of the person, depicted with variations in the weight of the gaze. These are deductions as to Hesse’s conflict in the subject of the relationship between her art and her life. In some instances, her opinion was that the inner person, life and art are intertwined elements, yet on another level, she rationalized that art and life cannot be combined (Gleick, j., 1987, p. 5). The new style employed vibrant colors with geometric forms, creating brightly colored drawings of unique shapes and squiggles. Stark contrast is evident creating the impression of a deeply disarrayed world. An apparent willingness to face her inner chaos is evident in this phase of works also indicating an intense energy. Some of the drawings appear to be shattered glass, while the chaotic patterns seem to create a mosaic landscape, yet others look like the aftermath of an explosion. These chaoses then gradually take the order of recognizable containers and repetitive pat