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:
“The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)