Niki de Saint Phalle
"Cathedrale du mangeur d’enfant” / ”Petite Cathédrale”, 1962
Niki de Saint Phalle constructed altars and cathedrals out of cruci xes, guns, rats, knives and …
Read moreNiki de Saint Phalle constructed altars and cathedrals out of cruci xes, guns, rats, knives and Madonnas. She mixed these with other small plastic objects that had ooded the French market in the early 60s. She began to create these altars after producing her rst Tirs, or “Shooting Paintings,” in which she red a ri …
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An enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de …
Read moreAn enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de Saint-Phalle taught herself painting and rose to artistic prominence through her colorful monumental outdoor sculptures of extravagantly voluptuous female figures. Early in her career, she became known for the abstract …
Read moreNiki de Saint Phalle constructed altars and cathedrals out of cruci xes, guns, rats, knives and …
Read moreNiki de Saint Phalle constructed altars and cathedrals out of cruci xes, guns, rats, knives and Madonnas. She mixed these with other small plastic objects that had ooded the French market in the early 60s. She began to create these altars after producing her rst Tirs, or “Shooting Paintings,” in which she red a ri …
Read moreAn enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de …
Read moreAn enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de Saint-Phalle taught herself painting and rose to artistic prominence through her colorful monumental outdoor sculptures of extravagantly voluptuous female figures. Early in her career, she became known for the abstract …
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