About Eduardo Paolozzi

  • Biography

    Following is the obituary of the artist from the website of The Guardian, April 22, 2005.

    Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
    Sculptor and printmaker who created some of the finest examples of British pop art

    Of the few British artists who came to international prominence soon after the second world war, Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, who has died aged 81, was one of the most inventive, prolific and various. Chiefly a sculptor (and one of the first to react against the all-pervading influence of Henry Moore), he was also a highly original printmaker some of whose collage-based silkscreened images are among the finest examples of pop art - the style he was instrumental in shaping.

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