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Bruce Nauman

Personal Details Name Bruce Nauman Place of birth Fort Wayne, Indiana Date of Birth December 6, 1941 (age 68) Nationality American Field Painting Training University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of California, Davis Influenced Greg Colson, Rachel Whiteread Works "Laair," 1970, "Human/Need/Desire," 1983 Awards Larry Aldrich Award

Career:

    Newman's late works, such as the Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue series, use vibrant, pure colors, often on very large canvases - Anna's Light (1968), named in memory of his mother who had died in 1965, is his largest work, twenty-eight feet wide by nine feet tall. Newman also worked on shaped canvases late in life, with Chartres (1969), for example, being triangular, and returned to sculpture, making a small number of sleek pieces in steel. These later works are executed in acrylic paint rather than the oil paint of earlier pieces. Of his sculptures, Broken Obelisk is the most mammoth and perhaps best-known, depicting an inverted obelisk whose point balances on the apex of a pyramid.

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