Eduardo Paolozzi
(March 7, 1924 - April 22, 2005) |
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Eduardo Paolozzi |
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Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Scottish |
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March 7, 1924 |
| Death: |
April 22, 2005 |
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Sculpture
Printmaking
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Biography
| Paolozzi was a Scottish born sculptor and printmaker. While in Edinburgh, the place of his birth, he attended evening classes in order to become a commercial artist. Subsequently he moved to England to study sculpture at the Slade School of Art thereafter, exhibiting his first solo show in 1947. His senses were drawn to surrealism which inspired him to begin making collages of found imagery from magazines and technical and scientific publilcations. These works later classified him as a precursor to the 1950s British and American Pop movements. By 1950, he had recieved his first of many public commissions for a fountain for the Festival of Britain South Bank Exhibition. Throughout his artistic career, he was appointed as a professor of scultpture at both the Munich Academy and London's Royal College of Art. He was made a Royal Academician in 1978 and knighted in 1989. In 1994 Paolozzi gave the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art a large body of his works, and much of the content of his artist's studio. In 1999, the National Galleries of Scotland opened the Dean Gallery to display this collection. |
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