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20 de abr. de 2023 · El arte de Robert Longo, efectivamente, nace del polvo. Del polvo figurado de la historia, la cultura y la contracultura pasadas y actuales, pero también del polvo del carbón que utiliza para realizar sus espectaculares dibujos a gran escala.
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Born on January 7, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island, Robert Longo's early interest in mass media such as films and comic books had a profound influence on his later art. Dyslexia made school difficult for Longo, who described himself in his senior year of high school as the "hippy jock who was also organizing political protests....
Between 1973 and his graduation in 1975, Longo writes that he "worked under the experimental filmmakers Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton, who introduced [him] to structural filmmaking and Sergei Eisenstein's films," referring to the pioneering Soviet avant-garde filmmaker (1898-1948). In 1974, along with his artist friends including Cindy Sherman, ...
Working across mediums, Longo's art became associated with 1980s New York and its changing topography, from the wild adrenaline rush of Wall Street and subsequent gentrification to the storied nightlife and creative bounty of the city's underground art and music scenes. His works consistently explored the role of images in pop culture, as well as t...
For an artist whose artistic directions were often spurred by political events and climates, Longo describes the early 2000s, with 9/11 (2001) and the war in Iraq (2003) as having "profoundly affected.. [his] .. outlook on the world." The scale of Longo's charcoal works portraying scenes from current events became monumental. They gained their heft...
While Longo's oeuvre defies categorization by medium or genre, there is an overarching consistency in the thematic elements of his works, as well as a palpable melancholic aesthetic. Writing in 1989, art historian Hal Foster noted that "It is in the war zone between schizoid obscenity and utopian hope that the art of Roberto Longo is now to be foun...
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- January 7, 1953
- Brooklyn, New York
Robert Longo is an American artist best known for his photorealistic drawings of jumping figures, sharks, tigers, and guns. View Robert Longo’s 2,894 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion. He lives in New York and East Hampton.
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ROBERT LONGO. “Art is an attempt to try and understand our own contemporary situation through making images that are completely personal, while also addressing our social context.”. Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, New York.
