Soft sculpture
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Soft sculpture is a type of sculpture made using cloth, foam rubber, plastic, paper, fibers and similar material that are supple and nonrigid.
Popularized in the 1960s by artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama, the following is a list of selected artists who have worked with soft sculpture:
- Katie Gardenia
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Lynda Benglis
- Louise Bourgeois
- Isabelle de Borchgrave
- Joseph Bueys
- Jann Haworth
- Eva Hesse
- Mark Jenkins
- Annette Messager
- Robert Morris
- Rosslyn Piggot
- Richard Serra
- Michelle Stewart
- Marjorie Strider
- Dorothea Tanning
Xavier Roberts, the creator of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids made his first dolls using this method.
[edit] External links
http://www.nga.gov.au/EXHIBITION/softsculpture/
- Blick Art Materials Lesson Plan about soft sculpture
- An Exhibition (SoftSculpture) at the National Gallery of Australia - 24 April – 12 July 2009
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