Sari Dienes | |
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| Born | Sarolta Maria Anna Chylinska October 8, 1898 Debreczen, Hungary |
| Died | May 25, 1992 (aged 93) Stony Point, New York |
| Nationality | American (b. Hungary) |
| Website | saridienes |
Sari Dienes (8 October 1898 – 25 May 1992) was a Hungarian-born American artist. During a career spanning six decades she worked in a wide range of media, creating paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, textile designs, sets and costumes for theatre and dance, sound-art installations, mixed-media environments, music and performance art. Her large-scale 'Sidewalk Rubbings' of 1953–55 - bold, graphic, geometrical compositions, combining rubbings of manhole covers, subway gratings and other elements of the urban streetscape - signaled a move away from the gestural mark making of Abstract Expressionism towards the indexical appropriation of the environment that would be further developed in Pop art, and exerted a significant influence on Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.[1]
- ^ Johns cited in: Edward M. Plunkett, 'Send Letters, Postcards, Drawings, and Objects...', Art Journal, vol. 36, no. 3 (Spring 1977): p 234; Kirk Varnedoe (ed.) Jasper Johns - A Retrospective, New York: MOMA/Abrams, 1996.