";s:4:"text";s:4387:" The exhibition, titled Proof, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in 2017 and to the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2018. While in college, Longo and his friends established an avant garde art gallery in their co-op building, the Essex Art Center, which was originally a converted ice factory; the gallery became Although he studied sculpture, drawing remained Longo's favorite form of self-expression. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Robert Longo is an American artist best known for his detailed photorealistic drawings of jumping figures, sharks, tigers, and guns. Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, New York. The movements are fresh and vital, full of energy and life, even while they portray a sense of agony. View Robert Longo’s 2,347 artworks on artnet. See available prints and multiples, works on paper, and photographs for sale and learn about the artist. Robert Longo
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. Using a vast vocabulary of source images culled from the mainstream media, as well as from historical and art historical references, Longo’s work strikes a balance between the very personal and the socially charged. He graduated high school in 1970, the same year as the Kent State University Massacre in Ohio, which started as a student protest against the US invasion of Cambodia and led to nationwide uprisings, spurring Longo to become involved in political organizing. Robert Longo burst onto the New York art scene as a brash 25-year-old with “Men in the Cities,” his iconic 1983 large-scale charcoal drawings of businessmen posing in uncanny contortions.“I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,” he said in 1984. He had a childhood fascination with mass media: movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continue to influence his art. For Men in the Cities, Robert Longo set up his camera on the rooftop of his apartment and threw a variety of objects at his friends, capturing their aggressive reactions in these remarkable paintings. All rights reserved. Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives and works in New York, New York. Robert Longo is also a sculptor, but is perhaps best known for his charcoal, ink and graphite drawings which he elevates to the scale of enormous paintings.
Longo uses graphite like clay, molding it to create images like the writhing, dancing figures in his seminal Working on themes of power and authority, Longo produced a series of blackened American flags ("Black Flags" 1989–91)In 2013, Longo's artwork was featured in an article in the men's magazine, Longo has had retrospective exhibitions at Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, In the 1980s, Longo directed several music videos, including He was the leader and guitarist of a musical act called x.