Eva Hesse

Introduction

This is a critical analysis of the artwork by a profound artist Eva Hesse. In this paper I would briefly describe the life of the artist, then we will be examining the kind of work she has done in her career. The main emphasis is on the great artwork by the name, “Right After” which she created in the year 1969. Most of her work has the minimalist approach, which is also discussed in the later parts of this paper.

Eva Hesse-Her Life

Eva Hesse was born in the year 1936 in Germany. Her parents were separated in 1944, her father remarried in a years' time and the mother committed a suicide in 1946. Hence she became an orphan at the age of ten. She studied at the Yale school of art and architecture, after which she became friends with a lot of young and struggling artists. In 1961 she got married to Tom Doyle, and they went back to Germany (www.articles.latimes.com). Eva was not very happy to be back in Germany, they lived there in an abandoned textile mill where she started to experiment with the left over materials of the mill, like wire, thread, cloth etc. the material she used in her work aged badly, except for the fibre glass she used, so it is a challenge to understand her work.. Eva was not very happy in her married life, her marriage with Tom Doyle lasted for not less than five years and they got separated. Soon after that her father also died, and she went into depression.

Eva Hessse-Her Work

Eva's art work was very much influenced by the struggles she went through in her life. Her childhood was disturbed because of the Nazis, the whole escaping from Germany and staying away from her parents and finally when the family reunited her parents got divorced. Then her mother's suicide and father's second marriage, and her own separation with Tom Doyle and lastly her father's death all made her psychologically unbalanced and disturbed. Hence she was diagnosed brain tumour at a very early age i.e 34 and died of the same. Her work remains to be questionably remarkable (wwww.omstreifer.wordpress.com).

Eva Hesse was one of the few artists who moved from minimalism to post minimalism. She used simplest form of material and made wonders out of them. People who knew her personally cannot forget her charismatic personality. Although Hesse's career span was ...