Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

Nevelson experimented with early conceptual art using found objects, and dabbled in painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture. Usually created out of wood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often 3-D. A unique feature of her work is that her figures are often painted in monochromatic black or white.
When looking up various artists, Nevelson got me interested the most especially when I looked back at my first task which was building the huge robot inside a city.

At my first impression, the artist reminded me a lot of Andy Warhol. Nevelson placed objects into boxes, but never closed them up and left what was in there exposed to viewers which is an opposite thing of what Andy Warhol does. He puts objects in boxes and then seals them up so you never actually know what is inside the box, but you know that they contain something from Andy Warhols past.

The thing I like the most about Louises Nevelson work is that she uses objects which she finds. I think that the objects you find are more interesting than the objects you already posses and of course a single person can have some very interesting items, but when you find objects lost or left behind by other people, that object can tell a story of the person who left it behind. Even something simple like an empty coffee cup and a newspaper on a table can already tell you that the person likes to start his/ her mornings in Starbucks.

Nevelson collects those very objects and by having several on them presented at once, makes you think of all the kinds of people whom those objects belonged to.

One of her quotes say
"I never for one minute questioned
what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that
I didn't have what I have.
It just didn't down to me.
And so if you know what you have
then you know that there's nobody on earth
that can affect you."

This quote suggest that the artist followed what she had to do without a second thought. It tells us that perhaps the artist had clear goals at her mind and knew what she had to do to achieve them. The part of the quote which states And so if you know what you have then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you." is a lectural quote which from my speculation means that if you earned something and you know it's yours, then there is nobody that can take it away from you.