Oral history interview with Marisol
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 15 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Marisol, 1930-2016
label: Interviewer
content: Roberts, Colette, 1910-
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France) -- Students
label: Names
content: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Collagists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Marisol, 1930-2016
label: Interviewer
content: Roberts, Colette, 1910-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marisol (1930- ) is a sculptor in New York, N.Y. She was born in Paris to a Venezuelan family.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 34 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 Feb. 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mariso68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Marisol conducted 1968 Feb. 8, by Colette Roberts, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: In the interview Marisol speaks of her childhood spent both in Chile and France; the encouragement of her parents and teachers to draw freely; her progression from painting, to drawing, to collage and reliefs; the influence of Europeans, Matisse and Picasso, and American, Rauschenberg; her time spent in museums as a child and the subsequent exposure to DaVinci and Rembrandt; her art education, predominantly in New York at the Art Students League and briefly in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Art; her association with the Abstract Expressionists at the Club; the contrast of her work to the dream-based Surrealists; her first show for Castelli in 1957; her shows at the '62 and '64 annual exhibitions at the Stable; her more recent exhibitions for the Carnegie and Sidney Janis Gallery of The Beach and The Party; the origins of her wood drawings as a discovery while drawing lines to be sculpted upon wood; her experience working for the Daily Telegraph and completing portraits of historical figures such as Charles DeGalle; the literary influence of Dostoeveski, and more specifically Crime and Punishment; her recent apathy for visual entertainments and diversions (like the Ballet). Both in the interview and afterwards in a supplemental biographical addition Roberts and Marisol allude to her resistence to sit for interviews. The artist feels that she doesn't "have much to say."