Paolozzi, Eduardo - Isaac Newton - British Library - art postcard

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• Work of art title: Sir Isaac Newton - Statue - at the British Library, London
• Artist (if known): Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)
• Media or other details:  sculpture
• Publisher / Gallery: The British Library
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Modern
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, CBE, RA (7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a major figure in the international art sphere, while, working on his own interpretation and vision of the world. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our fragmented civilization through imagination and fantasy. By the dramatic juxtaposition of ideas in his work, he let us see the confusion as well as the inspiration.^[1]

After Paris, he moved back to London eventually establishing his studio in Chelsea. The studio was a work-shop filled with hundreds of found objects, models, sculptures, materials, tools, toys and stacks of books.^[3] Paolozzi was interested in everything and would use a variety of objects and materials in his work, particularly his collages.^[1] Largely a surrealist, Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1950s by producing a range of striking screenprints and 'Art Brut' sculpture. Paolozzi was a founder of the Independent Group in 1952, which is regarded as the precursor to the mid 1950s British and late 1950s American Pop Art movements. His seminal 1947 collage I was a Rich Man's Plaything is considered the earliest standard bearer representing Pop Art.^[4][5][6] He always described his work as surrealist art and, while working in a wide range of media though his career, became more closely associated with sculpture. Paolozzi is recognized for producing largely lifelike statuary works, but with rectilinear (often cubic) elements added or removed, or the human form deconstructed in a cubist manner.

He taught sculpture and ceramics at a number of institutions, including University of California, Berkeley (in 1968) and at the Royal College of Art. Paolozzi had a long association with Germany, having worked in Berlin from 1974 as part of the Artists Exchange Scheme. He was a professor at the Fachhochschule in Cologne from 1977 to 1981, and later taught sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Paolozzi was fond of Munich and many of his works and concept plans were developed in a studio he kept there, including the mosaics of the Tottenham Court Road Station in London.^[1] He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Paolozzi decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.^[7]

Paolozzi’s graphic work of the Sixties was highly innovative. In a series of works he explored and extended the possibilities and limits of the silkscreen medium. The resulting prints, characterised by Pop culture references and technological imagery, look fresh and relevant in the 21st Century. These series are: As Is When. (12 prints on the theme of Paolozzi’s interest in the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein; published as a limited edition of 65 by Editions Alecto, 1965); Moonstrips Empire News. (100 prints, (8 signed) in an acrylic box; published as a limited edition of 500 by Editions Alecto, 1967); Universal Electronic Vacuum. (10 prints, poster and text; published by Paolozzi as a limited edition of 75, 1967); General Dynamic Fun. (part 2 of Moonstrips Empire News. 50 sheets plus title sheet; boxed in 5 versions; published as a limited edition of 350 by Editions Alecto, 1970).