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What kind of paper does Robert Longo use?

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What kind of paper does Robert Longo use?
Robert Longo uses cold roll paper. The artist himself explained in an interview that the paper he prefers is not handmade, instead it is machine-made, archival paper. Longo is best known for his paintings that capture realistic moments and express the inner strength of his subjects. Shop a selection of Longo pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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Jules
By Robert Longo
Located in Austin, TX
Artist's proof 6 of 10 apart from the edition of 45 Lithograph with embossing on Arches Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘AP 6/10 Robert Longo’ Published by: Brooke Alexander, Inc.,...
Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

TILLMAN
By Robert Longo
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on on Arches wove paper from Men in the Cities portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by Robert Longo. Published by Wolfryd-Selway Fine Art, New York, with their blindstamp....
Category

2010s Pop Art Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Essentials (from the Forty Are Better Than One series), 2009
By Robert Longo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robert Longo Essentials (from the Forty Are Better Than One series), 2009 Seven-part leporello pigment print on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Rag 68 × 12 3/4 in 172.7 × 32.4 cm Edition of 75 M...
Category

Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Pigment

Three Strikes You're Out (Limited Edition Triptych)
By Robert Longo
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo Three Strikes, You're Out (Triptych), 1990 Silkscreen and Color Photograph (C-Print) on Aluminum and Lead Plates 9 4/5 × 23 3/5 inches Edition 120/200 Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's and publishers printed name & copyright Unframed Three Strikes You're Out was created in 1990 by Robert Longo exclusively for the mixed-media box-edition Contemporary Archeology, Pandora Part Three. The works were executed by jennifer Cox for Publishing House Bebert in an edition of 200, numbered and signed copies. This work is assembled as triptych and consists of two aluminium plates. Both aluminium plates show a color photograph of a cloud with silkscreened red X, the lead plate only showing the red X Total size is: 9.8 inches by 23.6 inches Individual Metal Plate Sizes: 9.8 x 9.1 in (2) / 9.8 x 5.1 (1) Unframed Boldly signed and numbered in black marker from the edition of 200 on the verso; bears the artist's printed name and copyright mark, along with the publisher - Publishing House Bebert, Rotterdam. Robert Longo Biography: Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, New York. He graduated high school in 1970, weeks after the Ohio National Guard massacred several students at Kent State University who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. One of those killed was a former classmate of Longo’s, and his body was shown in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that was seen across the world. The event shocked Longo, triggering his interest in political activism and media imagery. In 1972, Longo received a grant to study restoration and art history in Florence. While touring the museums of Europe, he realized he wanted to make, rather than restore art. In 1973, Longo enrolled at Buffalo State College, where he worked for artists Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton, who introduced him to structuralist filmmaking. Along with Charles Clough, Longo also co-founded Hallwalls (1974–ongoing), an alternative non-profit art exhibition space where he organized shows and talks with artists such as John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Robert Irwin, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Serra. At Buffalo State, Longo started a friendship–that still exists to this day–with Cindy Sherman, and in 1977 the two moved to New York together, where Longo began working as a studio assistant to Vito Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. That year he was included in the exhibition Pictures at Artist’s Space, curated by Douglas Crimp, which showcased work by a group of five young artists who were engaged with the politics of image-making, drawing from advertisements, newspapers, film, and television. The “Pictures Generation,” as they became known, included artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, David Salle, and drew from semiotics and poststructuralist theory to investigate the way meaning is made and circulated in modern society. Their work often critiqued the anaesthetizing power of consumer capitalism and the indoctrinating effects of mass media. At his first solo show at Metro Pictures in 1981, Longo presented his charcoal and graphite Men in the Cities drawings, which instantly became icons of the “Pictures Generation,” and some of the most recognizable artworks of the 1980s. Longo performed in New York rock clubs with the band Menthol Wars with Richard Prince, throughout the 1980s. During that period, he also designed numerous album covers, including Glenn Branca’s The Ascension (1981) and The Replacements’ Tim (1985). In 1986, he directed his first music video for New Order’s chart-topping song Bizarre Love Triangle, and the following year directed The One I Love, a video for R.E.M.’s first hit single. Longo began working with diverse materials at increasingly ambitious scales. His Combines series, first exhibited in 1983, incorporated materials such as paint, graphite, wood, plaster, cast bronze, and steel in works that were part-painting, part-sculptural reliefs. Using Sergei Eisenstein...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Metal

Men In the Cities - Gretchen (Hand Signed By Robert Longo)
By Robert Longo
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo (Wo)Men In the Cities - Gretchen (Hand Signed), 1991 Limited Edition Offset Lithograph Frame included Edition of 100 Hand signed lower right front; unnumbered Published by Amnesty International and Act-Up This offset lithograph is based upon Longo's 1982 untitled work featuring one of his models, Gretchen, a charcoal and graphite on paper. Robert Longo’s “Men in Cities...
Category

1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Robert Longo, Untitled (Men in the Cities) - Set of 2 Photographs, Signed
By Robert Longo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Robert Longo (American, born 1953) Untitled (Men in the Cities), 1976/2009 Medium: Set of two gelatin silver prints Dimensions: each 50.8 x 40.64 cm (20 x 16 in); overall 50.8 x 81.2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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