Today we celebrate the birthday of American artist Robert Longo who was born on January 7, 1953. Longo draws with graphite, but his sculptural approach to the medium often finds him mistaken for a painter. The artist’s breakthrough came from his Men in the Cities series which saw him rising to prominence in the 1980′s alongside other art stars of the era like Cindy Sherman and David Salle. At his 2014 exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Longo displayed reworkings of iconic paintings by American artists, and in this interview he discusses everything from the ethics of image appropriation to the role of photography in the history of painting to the violence in the work of painter Joan Mitchell…

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