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Student Union Collection |
Robert
Longo
American, Born 1953
Eric, 1984
color lithograph
68” x 39”
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A single, isolated figure, enlarged to
epic proportions, stylishly dressed but stripped of any background
or context, Eric is an almost life-size lithograph by super-realist
artist Robert Longo of an earlier untitled work from his series,
Men in the City.
Eric depicts a young white man spinning violently out of control.
Longo achieved this effect by working from photographs he took
of friends on the roof of his loft near the financial district
in New York City. Reportedly he hurled objects at them to get
the desired responses, thus the theatrical “poses.” He
then projected the photographs larger than life, onto the wall
and sketched the images.
Longo has been called a media artist in his liberal use seduction
and drama. Influenced by movies, his works tend to tower above
the viewer.
In his early 30s when he created
his series of young urban men, Longo said it was about the “loneliness
of being alone. You’re always alone, no matter if you are
in a room full of people, you’re always going to be alone."
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