Louise Nevelson's Argumentative Essay

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One of my favorite artist and sculptor is Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). She emigrated from Russia to America at age of three. She is an American sculptor famous in monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. One of her famous quote makes me be her fan, " When you put together things that others have thrown out, you are really bringing them to life. A life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created. With that belief, Nevelson collected wood scraps on the streets of New York, old wood from furniture factories and assembled them to make art.Thus, her sculptures are called Assemblages, in other word, it is the installation art, which creates an artwork from a lot of different size of objects by

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