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On the 22nd of May 2012 we remember the death of artist Niki de Saint Phalle ten years ago This memory and the International Women‘s Day on 8th of March made me create this crochet Nana Spread the word and this tutorial and share your colorful Nana - in our facebook groups (nadelspiel, knitaholics) as a message of pure joy of life

Art Outreach Program - Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle-Nana Boule 1972 Notice the organic shape, and imagine the organic form this sculpture would have if you held it in your hands ART VOCABULARY: Sculpture: Making a 3-dimensional art piece, by carving or casting Positive & Negative Space: Positive Space is occupied, Negative space is empty Plaster

The Niki de Saint Phalle’s Red NANA in Miami

The Red Nana, Niki de Saint Phalle’s work 1995 Red Nana typifies the poise, grace and humor of Saint Phalle’s exuberant sculptures, expressing a celebration of both womanhood and pleasure

Research is conducted in affiliation with the - Niki de Saint

Niki de Saint Phalle has created a large number of “Nanas” in her career with different materials, in different shapes and dimensions The catalogue raisonné will document this aspect of Niki de Saint Phalle’s oeuvre It will illustrate the range of Niki de Saint Phalle’s creative achievements in this field

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE: a Psychological Approach to Her Artwork

Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle in 1930 in France, the second of five children She was born into a very wealthy, noble family Her father was a banker; her mother came from a rich American family, which normally spent summers in the family’s castle in France

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE: FREEDOM WOULD BE MINE

Niki de Saint Phalle: Freedom Would Be Mine Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) passionately rebelled—against artistic trends or movements, against women’s traditional roles, against perceived limitations of what a woman artist could do She forged her own path, one that was set in motion in 1961 by her shots heard around the world

Bottle-Body Sculptures

“Nana” sculptures of Niki de Saint Phalle Beginning in the mid 1960s, among a new vision of feminism and the civil rights movement, sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle began creating a series of female figures that became known as “Nanas ” The term is French slang for woman, much like "chick" or “broad” would be in American slang Defying the