PITTSBURGH — The decade of the 1960s brought with it a pop culture explosion that enveloped music, fashion, film and visual art.
In one sonic boom, a new multi-dimensional world of creation opened up and two artists in particular — Venezuelan-American Marisol Escobar, otherwise known simply as Marisol, and Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol — contributed mightily to that perception.
The exhibition “Marisol and Warhol Take New York” recently opened at The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side. The museum claims it is the first to explore the close friendship and working relationship shared by Marisol and Warhol, the latter famous for well beyond 15 minutes, and the former, seemingly forgotten.
It’s a safe bet that many well-informed art lovers have never heard of Marisol, a sculptor whose revolutionary style involves flat, painted surfaces and additional elements, including plaster castings. As the ‘60s wore on, her star, having risen rapidly in the early part of the decade, began to fade — some characterize it as her being written out of the white male-dominated pop narrative.
Marisol died in relative obscurity in New York in 2016. She was 85.
You can read more about this exhibit here.
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