1. Eva Hesse - American Sculptor
Over the course of the semester, we have looked at a number of artist's who utilize concepts of loss and related themes, such as, melancholia and mourning. ... The browning of the latex affects the light as it hits the piece, and displaces it from its original form of light. ... Darkness or "blackness" are attributes coinciding with these themes of mourning and melancholia in that it creates a sort of emptiness or lost. ... Hesse lost her father when she was only 30 years old, and during that same year, Eva separated from her husband (Corby 2). ... Expressing these losses of relationships...
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