Also on view are Saint Phalle's innovative paintings called Tableaux Eclates described by Pontus Hulten, Director of the Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland as 'paintings, but with a twist. These compositions break up, light up and move around. Returning to France in the 1950s, she began an artistic career, which would shock and delight art audiences throughout Europe and America. Never formally trained, Saint Phalle's work is an ever-evolving expression of her own fantastic journey through life. It is all subjective.
Nothing is secret.
Luckily, people cannot always see what they look at. Saint Phalle gained notoriety in the early 1960s for hertirs, paintings with embedded paint pouches that she shot at with rifle, revolver or sometimes a small cannon. Recently completed and unveiled is L'Ange Protecteur, a 33-foot high protecting angel commissioned by the Swiss Railroads for the station in Zurich, Switzerland. You Can't Catch It by Holding Hands, published in five languages. The space between the wonders of the perceptible world and an inner world conjured up through dreams and visions is a constant in all Saint Phalle's sculpture, painting and design.