Everything about Eduardo Paolozzi totally explained
in illustrating how
Isaac Newton's equations changed our view of the world to being one determined by mathematical laws.]]
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, CBE, FRA (
March 7 1924 –
April 22 2005), was a
Scottish sculptor and
artist.
Paolozzi was born in
Leith in north
Edinburgh, the eldest son of
Italian immigrants. In June 1940, when Italy declared war on Britain, Paolozzi was interned (along with most other Italian men in Britain). During his three-month internment at
Saughton prison his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the
Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-Boat.
(External Link
) He studied at the
Edinburgh College of Art in
1943, briefly at the
St Martin's School of Art in
1944, and then at the
Slade School of Art in
London from 1944 to
1947, after which he worked in
Paris,
France.
Largely a
surrealist, Paolozzi came to public attention in the
1960s by producing a range of striking
screenprints. Paolozzi was a founder of the
Independent Group, which is seen as a precursor to the '60s British
pop art movement. His 1947 collage
I was a rich man's plaything (External Link), is sometimes labelled the first true instance of
Pop Art, although he always described his work as surrealist. Latterly he became better known as a sculptor. Paolozzi is known for producing largely lifelike statuary works, but with rectilinear (often cubic) elements added or removed, or the human form deconstructed in a
cubist manner.
His works include:
He taught sculpture and ceramics at a number of institutions, including
University of California, Berkeley (in
1968) and at the
Royal College of Art. Paolozzi has a long association with
Germany, having worked in
Berlin from
1974 as part of the
Artists Exchange Scheme. He was a professor at the
Fachhochschule in
Cologne from
1977 to
1981, and later taught sculpture at the
Akademie der Bildenden Künste in
Munich.
Paolozzi was awarded the
CBE in
1968 and in
1979 he was elected to the
Royal Academy. During the late 60s he started contributing to literary magazine
Ambit, which began a lifelong collaboration. He became the
Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in
1986, holding the office until his death. He became Sir Eduardo Paolozzi upon his knighthood 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, and the gallery displays a recreation of Paolozzi's studio, with its contents evoking the original London and Munich locations.
In
2001 Paolozzi suffered a near-fatal stroke (causing an
incorrect magazine report that he'd died).
However, illness confined him to a wheelchair, and he died in a hospital in
London in April 2005.
Other work
Eduardo Paolozzi played a deaf-mute in
Lorenza Mazzetti's
Free Cinema film
Together, alongside the painter
Michael Andrews (1955).
Further Information
Get more info on 'Eduardo Paolozzi'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://eduardo_paolozzi.totallyexplained.com">Eduardo Paolozzi Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
