{"id":714,"date":"2014-07-01T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2014-07-02T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:14:48","slug":"sobel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/","title":{"rendered":"Page-Sobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_714'] = [\n{id: 923, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP469-e1404338042437.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP469-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#923\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Janet Sobel<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1941<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Gouache on board<br\/>Courtesy of Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#923\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 922, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP136-e1404338061468.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP136-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#922\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Janet Sobel<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1942<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Enamel on board<br\/>Courtesy of Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#922\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 924, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP513-e1404338125226.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP513-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#924\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Janet Sobel<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1942<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Gouache on paper<br\/>Courtesy of Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/sobel\/#924\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><strong>Janet Sobel<\/strong> (American, b. Ukraine 1893\u20131968)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-451 \" alt=\"Sobel, Janet - Gary Snyder Gallery, lepoignardsubtil.hautetfort.com\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel-Janet-Gary-Snyder-Gallery-lepoignardsubtil.hautetfort.com_-e1404310258148.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"232\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Gary Snyder Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sobel\u2019s artwork, unlike that of many self-taught artists, was shown beside well-known, mainstream artwork during her lifetime; she was accepted inside as an outsider. Her works repeat many of the stylistic motifs that other outsider artists are attracted to, such as horror vacui, or a fear of empty spaces resulting in covering her surfaces completely. However, as an artist with a great deal of exposure to mainstream work, Sobel\u2019s artwork also reflects many of the Surrealist philosophies regarding experimentation with style, figure, and form.<\/p>\n<p>Sobel was born Jennie Lechovzky in Ukraine in 1893 and immigrated to the United States in 1908 with her mother and two siblings after her father was killed in a pogrom. In 1910, at the age of sixteen, Janet married Russian immigrant Max Sobel, whom she had known during her childhood. The couple settled in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and had five children. With encouragement from her son Sol, Sobel began to paint at the age of 43. Sol recognized the talent in his mother\u2019s work and began introducing her work to such figures as Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, and John Dewey. Surrealist artists enjoyed Sobel\u2019s early works for their unrestricted imagination, figurative abstraction, and representational qualities. Sobel\u2019s drip paintings may have influenced Jackson Pollock, who, along with art critic Clement Greenberg, viewed Sobel\u2019s work at Peggy Guggenheim\u2019s famed Art of This Century gallery in 1945. Greenberg noted that Sobel\u2019s work was the first instance of \u201call-over\u201d painting\u2014which characterized much of the work of American Abstract Expressionist painters\u2014that he had seen. Sobel\u2019s later works went out of fashion because of Surrealism\u2019s evolution away from figurative abstraction into full abstraction as well as because of Sobel\u2019s move in 1946 to Plainfield, New Jersey, away from the Surrealist influences of New York City. Sobel\u2019s reputation lived on even after her death in 1968. Her interaction with the mainstream art world gave her works a distinctive quality: Surrealist influence within the unrestrained creativity of an outsider artist.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-714 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_714\" data-imgid=\"923\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP469-e1404338042437.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP469-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-923\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-923'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1941\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_714\" data-imgid=\"922\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP136-e1404338061468.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP136-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-922\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-922'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1942\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_714\" data-imgid=\"924\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP513-e1404338125226.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Sobel_UntitledJSP513-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-924\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-924'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1942\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Sobel (American, b. 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