Soft sculpture is a type of sculpture made using cloth, foam rubber, plastic, paper, fibers and similar material that are supple and nonrigid.
They can also be made out of natural materials if combined to make a nonrigid object.
Soft sculpture is very popular in Japan with artists like Yayoii Kusama boosting the heritage of this new and innovative medium for interior designers.
Popularized in the 1960s by artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama, the following is a list of selected artists who have worked with soft sculpture:
- Jeannie Martin
- Katie Gardenia
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Lynda Benglis
- Louise Bourgeois
- Isabelle de Borchgrave
- Joseph Bueys
- Jann Haworth
- Eva Hesse
- Mark Jenkins
- Annette Messager
- Robert Morris
- Rosslyn Piggot
- Richard Serra
- Michelle Stewart
- Marjorie Strider
- Joel Jones
- Daniel Richard
- Dylan Jones
Xavier Roberts, the creator of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids made his first dolls using this method.
Famous quotes containing the words soft and/or sculpture:
“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)