Contemporary artist Robert Longo creates photographically based works which often centre around themes of power and authority, using motifs such as guns, jet fighters and flags. His practice of transposing images onto his work means he has been linked to the Pictures Generations. The narrative strength of Longo’s work comes from his transformation of the intimate practice of drawing into paintings of a monumental scale. Robert Longo makes use of chiaroscuro, which plays on the contrast oflight and dark, as a primary material in his work. He rose to fame in the 1980s with the creation of his Men in the Cities series. Men in the Cities consists of larger-than-life drawings of business people in fantastical contorted positions, a commentary on the state of modern man. It is an early example of Longo’s trademark fusion of sculpture, photography, film, and drawing. Robert Longo’s work strikes a balance between the personal and the socially aware, and in so doing, reflects back on the world around us. American, b. 1953, Brooklyn New York. Lives and work in New York.

Robert Longo Prints