Paul Neagu
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Paul Neagu was an internationally important British-Romania
n artist
, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor. He died in London and Flowers East have since organised sales of works left in his estate.
His influences include cubism
and Marcel Duchamp
.
His works can be found in public collections including, among others, the British Museum
, London, le Fond départemental d'art contemporain, Seine Saint-Denis, Bobigny, France, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, the Musee Cantonal de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, the National Museum of Art of Romania
, Bucharest, the Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA, and the Tate Gallery
, London.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor. He died in London and Flowers East have since organised sales of works left in his estate.
His influences include cubism
Cubism
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...
and Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
.
His works can be found in public collections including, among others, the British Museum
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, London, le Fond départemental d'art contemporain, Seine Saint-Denis, Bobigny, France, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, the Musee Cantonal de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, the National Museum of Art of Romania
National Museum of Art of Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in the former royal palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest, Romania, completed in 1937...
, Bucharest, the Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA, and the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
, London.
"For Paul Neagu, art is an expression of 'desire in the face of
the systems that attempt to inhibit it', as he writes, and desire
involves 'the recovery' of what he calls, variously, the 'hyphen,' the
'abstract', the 'gamma', all of which involve the 'bodily', conveyed
particularly through the 'figural essence of sculpting, paintings,
drawings'. Neagu's works, whatever their medium, are certainly full of
desire, as their visceral energy suggests." Donald KuspitDonald KuspitDonald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A....
External links
- Paul Neagu at Sculpture.org.uk
- Remember Paul Neagu Memorial article from the Romainian Cultural Centre.