Paolozzi Eduardo life

Some information about Paolozzi Eduardo life : (1924)

1.    British sculptor and print maker

2.    Born in Edinburgh of Italian parents

3.    1945-7 he studied sculpture at the Slade school of art then in OXFORD

4.    From 1949 he worked in London rapidly becoming known as a resourceful working in 2 and 3 dimensions

5.    His first exhibition was in 1950 and he was one of the Independent Group at the institute of contemporary Art (This was a group of artists and intellectuals who developed a form of modernism).




My first part ( introduction) 

Eduardo Paolozzi

      Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1924 of Italian parents, was British sculptor and artist specifi­cally in printmaking. He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art and at Oxford 1945-7. Where in 1949 he worked in London and rapidly becoming known as a resourceful. After that he taught in London then he decides to teach outside Britain. Became famous in Germany, where in 1981 he was appointed professor of sculpture at Munich Academy. Also Paolozzi was one of the Independent Group at the institute of contemporary Art. During 1962 began to emerge as a Pop artist, because he created an abstract pieces from different materials also collage based screen-prints. Which have an important impact in the field on Pop history. Eduardo first exhibition was in 1950, sculpture has varied greatly and unique from material and ideas, but most of his work comes from personal reason. In his last days Eduardo suffered from disease and died in the hospital in London on 2005.

References:

- Langmuir,E and Lynton, N.(2000).The Yale Dictionary Of Art And Artists .USA
- WhitFord Fine Art .(n.d.). Retrieved April 1,2012 , from http://www.whitfordfineart.com/artist/page/569/sir_eduardo_paolozzi_ra

The Independent Group / Eduardo Paolozzi

The ‘Bunk’ collages of Eduardo Paolozzi

 EDUARDO PAOLOZZI’S SERIES of forty-five Bunk collages, made by the artist in Paris and London from around 1947 to 1952, are often considered as prototypical works of Pop art.

These are some examples : 

Evadne in green dimension,  is typical in its presentation of consumer goods, sex symbols and richly toned food advertisements, all cut from American magazines and combined in a dynamic composition.

However, many of the works in the series are characterised by the crudeness with which the source material has been cut and pasted down, incorporating yellowing strips of Sellotape and affixed to sheets of card that appear recycled from previous collages.

But it is also indisput- able that Paolozzi wanted to establish his ‘primogeniture’ in a manner that placed a heavy burden on hindsight. One of the more well-known collages from the series, I was a rich man’s plaything , was annotated by Paolozzi in the Tate cata- logue with ‘The First Use of Pop? Collage, 1947.