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Born 1955 Brooklyn, New York. Known for: Modernist figure, sculpture, graphics, drawing.
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed,... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed, high-pressure decade of the 1980's. Longo describes the subjects in this series as ". doomed souls. They're people who built the buildings that would eventually fall on them." . He views his work as abstract symbols, ". more like Japanese calligraphy, or... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed, high-pressure decade of the 1980's. Longo describes the subjects in this series as ". doomed souls. They're people who built the buildings that would eventually fall on them." . He views his work as abstract symbols, ". more like Japanese calligraphy, or logos" . Longo works with assistants to create an image and, as an artist, focuses on the communicat... Read full biography
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Keywords (45)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Enamel Paint
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plexiglas
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •American Flag Images
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Civil War Artist and/or Photographer
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York