Word: marisol
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...Marisol Escobar-or Marisol, as she is known professionally-studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, "I painted like a Hofmann student." But though she learned much from her master, he was quickly supplanted by a series of happenstance influences that sent Marisol off on a strange and appealing tangent of her own. In a friend's house, for instance, she saw some small Mexican boxes filled with hand-carved painted figures, and she was enchanted. In another house, she was drawn to an old-fashioned coffee grinder that had the shape...
...Marisol began making boxes filled with small figures; then she constructed some people, starting out with old hat forms. Today she is famous- sought after by collectors and currently featured in a group show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. That sort of accolade can mean much or little these days, but in Marisol's case, the applause is for more than mere novelty...
Married, The Infante Don Jose of Bavaria-Bourbon, nephew of Alfonso XIII, onetime King of Spain; and Marisol Maria de Lesseps, granddaughter of the late Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, projector-builder of the Suez Canal, grandniece of the late famed Empress Eugénie; in Urrugne, France...