Robert Longo is an American artist who paints and sculpts. He became famous for his 1980s collection, which was called “Men in the Cities.” I first experienced Longo as an artist when I went to Prague with my art class in college back in November, 2010. The one piece on display that was called ‘untitled (Ping)’ [above photo] struck me straight away and instantly caught my eye. At first I thought, along with the other students that it was simply a photograph, but when I looked closer it did look quite delicate, too delicate to be a photograph. When I later on researched Robert Longo after coming back from Prague to write my essay for contextual studies I found out that this piece was not a photograph but only a drawing from the media, charcoal. This piece comes from the 2007 collection. “Beginning of the World.” It simply shows the faces of the younger generation, children asleep. They emerge from the pitch black backdrop with their eyes closed, seemingly to think they are asleep.
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