Richard Deacon
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Small sculptures, monumental outdoor pices Art Work
| Name: |
Richard Deacon |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Bangor, Wales |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1949 |
| Death: |
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| Past Auctions: |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Small sculptures, monumental outdoor pices |
| Medium: |
Metal, vinyl and laminated plywood |
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| Style: |
Abstract in appearance, metaphorical |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Sculptor
Printmaker
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Biography
| In 1980, Deacon began making a series of sheet metal and laminated wood sculptures in simple organic shapes, their surfaces congruent with their structure. Deacon used unformed basic material to make sculptures that explored, by the use of metaphor, ideas that defined human experience through language and the senses. Although the forms devised by Deacon were fundamentally abstract in appearance, this metaphorical reference to the body and its methods of gathering information was alluded to in idiomatic titles such as The Eye Has It. As Deacon broadened both his vocabulary and range of materials, incorporating, for instance, vinyl and plywood into Boys and Girls (1982; London, British Council), so he increased the depth and complexity of metaphor into a highly flexible personal idiom. |
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