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1917 - 1984. Known for: Constructivist sculpture.
Robert Adams 1917-1984 . Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917. In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However,... Read full biography
Robert Adams 1917-1984 . Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917. In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However, after the war he spent two years teaching himself how to sculpt. Adams soon specialized in sculpture... Read full biography
Robert Adams 1917-1984 . Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917. In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However, after the war he spent two years teaching himself how to sculpt. Adams soon specialized in sculpture working in wood, plaster and stone. From 1933 to 1944, Adams studied at the Northampton School of Art. He visited Paris in the late 1940's where he met, among others, Brancusi and Laurens. Adams had his... Read full biography
Robert Adams 1917-1984 . Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917. In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However, after the war he spent two years teaching himself how to sculpt. Adams soon specialized in sculpture working in wood, plaster and stone. From 1933 to 1944, Adams studied at the Northampton School of Art. He visited Paris in the late 1940's where he met, among others, Brancusi and Laurens. Adams had his first solo exhibition in 1947 at Gimpel Fils in London. He began teaching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1949; here he learned how to weld and work with metal. His sculptures were abstract but not based around geometry; rather... Read full biography
Robert Adams 1917-1984 . Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917. In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However, after the war he spent two years teaching himself how to sculpt. Adams soon specialized in sculpture working in wood, plaster and stone. From 1933 to 1944, Adams studied at the Northampton School of Art. He visited Paris in the late 1940's where he met, among others, Brancusi and Laurens. Adams had his first solo exhibition in 1947 at Gimpel Fils in London. He began teaching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1949; here he learned how to weld and work with metal. His sculptures were abstract but not based around geometry; rather angular or circular forms found in nature. Soon he was part of a circle of arti... Read full biography
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Robert Adams 1917-1984
Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England in 1917.
In his early life, he studied life drawing at a local art school. During WWII Adams worked as an engineer. However, after the war he spent two years teaching himself how to sculpt. Adams soon specialized in sculpture working in wood, plaster and stone.
From 1933 to 1944, Adams studied at the Northampton School of Art. He visited Paris in the late 1940's where he met, among others, Brancusi and Laurens.
Adams had his first solo exhibition in 1947 at Gimpel Fils in London. He began teaching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1949; here he learned how to weld and work with metal. His sculptures were abstract but not based around geometry; rather angular or circular forms found in nature. Soon he was part of a circle of artists, including Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin and Mary Martin. From 1951 to 1956, the circle artists acted as a forum for Constructivist ideas in Britain; during this time Adams exhibited with the group.
During the period 1955 to 1960, Adams began to construct sculptures of welded metal sheets and rod elements. Adams, from reinforced concrete, created vast mural for the Municipal Theatre at Gelsenkirchen in Germay in 1959.
Later in his life, Adams concentrated on working in bronze. In 1973, for Kingswell in Hampstead, he created a large, steel structure.
Adams worked all the way until his death in 1984.
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Robert Adams was born in 1917 and passed away in 1984.
Adams was one of the most innovative and important artists working in Post-War Britain, developing a distinct abstract language alongside his contemporaries Kenneth Martin and Victor Pasmore.
His work was included in the celebrated British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1952, alongside Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull, after which critic Herbert Read dubbed the young group's shared aesthetic the 'Geometry of Fear'.