Thursday, June 9, 2011

Robert Longo



These explotions are really amazing! They are part of the incredible charcoal drawing collection of the American painter and sculptor Robert Longo, who was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Long Island. He had a childhood fascination with mass media: movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continue to influence his art. See more;

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. Longo uses graphite like clay, molding it to create images like the writhing, dancing figures in his seminal "Men in the Cities" series. Read more about Longo at Wikipedia





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