Kiki Smith

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Kiki Smith

• Minh Ngo
• Period 6

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Table of Contents
Artwork Background Timeline Quotes Materials and
Techniques Elements of Art Principle of
Design Philosophy Works Cited
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• Lucy's Daughters, 1990

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Untittled, 1991
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New Work, 1995
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Lucy's Daughters, 1990
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Constellation, 1996
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Vis Consili Expers Mole Ruit Sua, 2000
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Background

• Nuremburg, Germany
• Daughter of Tony Smith
• Helped make cardboard models
• Catholic
• Grew up in South Orange, New Jersey
• Created objects based off the human nervous
  system and organs

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Background (cont.)
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Timeline
1954 Birth
1976 Moves to New York
1974 Enrolls at Hartford Art School
1950s 1960s
1970s 1980s 1990s
Today
1985 Trained at Brooklyn hospital to become an
Emergency Medical Technician
1978 Joins Collaborative Projects Inc and started
making her first artworks
1980 The theme of death emerge in her artwork
with the death of her father.
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Quotes
TEMP. BAK. REViSE Prints mimic what we are as
humans we are all the same and yet every one is
different. I also think theres a spiritual power
in repetition a devotional quality, like saying
rosaries.-1998 In making work thats about the
body, Im playing with the indestructibility of
life, where life is this ferocious force that
keeps propelling us. At the same time, you can
just pierce it and it dies. Im always playing
between these two extremes. -1991 At ULAEIm
starting to use myself. Maybe because prints are
this other world- theyre a secret entrance into
using myself as a subjectIve been much more
self-revealing in doing prints-1991 I found this
anthropomorphizing of animals interesting the
human attributes we give to animals, and the
animal attributes we take on was humans to
construct our identity. Im trying to think about
this relationship between nature and human
nature, their different objects. -1998 I
decided I wanted to make images that would be
useful and positive in daily life. I thought of
female images that I liked, female superheroes.
-1998
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Materials and Techniques
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Elements of Art
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Principle of Design
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Philosophy
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Works Cited

• http//www.pbs.org/art21/artists/smith/index.html
• http//www.moma.org/exhibitions/2003/kikismith/fla
  sh.html
• http//www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is
  _10_91/ai_109667929
• http//www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bi
  o_146D.html

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