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Indiana, Robert  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th century, male.

Born 13 September 1928, in New Castle (Indiana).

Painter, sculptor. Stage sets, stage costumes, posters.

Pop Art.

Robert Indiana trained at the John Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, in 1945 and 1946, then at the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica (New York), Art Institute of Chicago from 1949 to 1953, Skowhegan School of Painting (Maine), University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, and then in London. Afterward, he travelled to Mexico, Europe, and the interior of the USA. In 1958, he moved to New York and, in 1978, settled in Vinhalven, on an island in Maine....

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Jones, Allen  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

British, 20th century, male.

Born 1937, in Southampton, England.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman. Scenes with figures, figures. Stage sets, stage costumes.

Pop Art.

Allen Jones studied painting at Hornsey College of Art from 1955 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1961 (the intervening year was spent at the Royal College of Art in London). He travelled to Paris in 1958, where he discovered the work of Robert Delaunay. He taught in the USA in the mid-1960s, and then returned to live and work in London. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1981 and a full member in 1986.

Allen’s earliest sculptural compositions feature warm colours and forms circled with haloes of paler tints. Initially reminiscent of Braque, his work later evolved in the direction of Pop Art, using vivid colours applied to everyday subjects such as a representation of a ‘bus together with its speed’, sometimes defined by drawing from the repertory of Conceptual Art. In ...