Niki de Saint Phalle
Plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)
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- Artists rank#213
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She made sculpture by shooting at it with rifles — violent assemblages that earned worldwide attention — then pivoted to monumental Nanas, joyful cartoon-colored women and creatures at house-sized scale, built without formal training in an art world that mostly belonged to men.
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Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle survived a traumatic childhood and married young, bearing two children before she began making art in a naïve, experimental style. The early work was angry: assemblages she attacked with firearms. Those gave way to the Nanas — whimsical, large-scale sculptures of animals, monsters, and female figures — and eventually to the Tarot Garden, a sprawling sculpture park of house-sized creations. She had no formal training but moved easily among contemporaries like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage, and worked for decades alongside Swiss kineti…
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