• Home
  • Categories
    • Art Everywhere
    • Art in California
    • Art Therapy
    • Kids in Museums
    • Artist Studio Visits
  • About
  • Contact
ReinventIngrid - Frame what you see…Look up and beyond…Learn about yourself ReinventIngrid - Frame what you see…Look up and beyond…Learn about yourself
Frame what you see…Look up and beyond…Learn about yourself
January 9, 2018

Niki de Saint Phalle: From France to San Diego, With Love

Art in California
Niki de Saint Phalle: From France to San Diego, With Love

When it comes to colorful art, Yayoi Kusama pretty much obliterated 2017. People flocked to her travelling exhibitions, queued hours to spend 30 seconds in her mirrored infinity rooms and used her bright patterned artworks and polka dots to take awesome selfies and be happy. Quite an awesome accomplishment for art that is produced as the only way Kusama found to resist suicide and survive the hallucinations that have plagued her life since being a young girl. “With no distinction between her as an artist and the product of her art, this is the intensity we can’t help but feel striking us all” was how I described it in my blog last year. Another artist who produced what we perceive as colorful art but which is in fact a form of therapy to alleviate darker life events is French-born Niki de Saint Phalle. Her Coming Together sums it up for me.

Continue Reading
12 Comments
by Ingrid Westlake

Follow Me on Instagram

    @reinventingrid

Categories

  • Art Everywhere
  • Art in California
  • Art Therapy
  • Kids in Museums
  • Artist Studio Visits

Subscribe & Follow

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Previous Posts

Follow On Instagram

Instagram has returned invalid data.

Follow Me!

My blog is about my constant reinvention, also called living a full life as long as you are prepared to never stop looking. It’s about sharing an aesthetic love of life and how using art as a filter or prism enables me (and hopefully you!) to reach a more grounded state of mind.

Categories

  • Art Everywhere
  • Art in California
  • Art Therapy
  • Kids in Museums
  • Artist Studio Visits

Subscribe & Follow

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

© 2018 - ReinventingGrid.com. All Rights Reserved.
 

Loading Comments...