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Fred Wiesener's inspiration for his clay ladies
came from his grandfather, who came over to America from Germany
in the late 1800's.
He was educated to be a civil engineer, but his passion was
design, drawing and painting illustrations. One of the first
jobs that he held in America was in New York City designing
and illustrating fashions for the Delineator magazine, a forerunner
of Harper's Bazaar.
He continued to draw and paint all of his life, depicting his
sophisticated "ladies" in relationships with their families,
friends and lovers. Fred has tried to incorporate these same
concepts and themes in his clay work by using pure curves, strong
primary design and with the exact subtle color relationships
used by the fashion industry around 1908 -1910.
The running theme behind all of my work is that of using light,
space, calligraphic forms and reversible figure-ground relationships
to create visual tensions. To achieve this I try to make the
plane of space that determines a specific edge against my forms
just as important to the viewer as the figures themselves.
Doing so created a subconscious question in the mind of the
viewer that must be resolved before looking away.
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