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Robert Longo is an American artist best known for his photorealistic drawings of jumping figures, sharks, tigers, and guns. View Robert Longo’s 2,891 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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May 13, 2021 · In 2009, he completed a cycle of drawings of other absolutes—bombs, nebulae, roses, sleeping children, and sharks—that he called The Essentials, and which form a poetic creation myth. Longo’s engagement with metaphysics continued in The Mysteries, a body of work completed from 2009 to 2014.
Drawing. Although he studied sculpture, drawing remained Longo's favorite form of self-expression. However, the sculptural influence pervades his drawing technique, as Longo's "portraits" have a distinctive chiseled line that seems to give the drawings a three-dimensional quality.
Sculptor, painter, and draftsman Robert Longo (American, b.1953) is well known for his bold drawings and sculptural works fusing pop culture and Fine Art. Longo was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his love of pop culture, cartoons, and print media as a child later significantly influenced his art.
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This towering sculpture is based on Longo’s habit of collecting and stacking issues of The New York Times at his desk throughout that year, creating a visual representation of cumulative grief and increasing social and political precarity.