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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. [1]
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 ...
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- January 7, 1953
- Brooklyn, New York
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.
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. Longo attended the University of North Texas in ...
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Robert Longo is an American artist best known for his photorealistic drawings of jumping figures, sharks, tigers, and guns. Drawn with great detail in charcoal, graphite, and ink, his monochrome series Men in the City renders businessmen and women in a state of suspended animation, and brought the artist critical acclaim in the early 1980s.
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Jul 23, 2009 · Robert Longo’s works are typically brash and eye catching. He marries the power of photographic and filmic images with large-scale artworks that often escape categorization as strictly painting, sculpture, or media art. As the artist states, “My work exists somewhere between movies and monuments.”. Longo explores the importance of images ...
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Mar 10, 1985 · In 1975, his graduation year, he and fellow-students, the artists Charles Clough, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack, founded - in a hall between studios - an alternative space called Hallwalls. They ...
