Richard Hunt (sculptor): Difference between revisions
Hunt graduated early from [[Englewood High School (Chicago, IL)|Englewood High School]] in January 1953 and entered the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] later that year. While studying at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] Hunt focused first on creating soldered wire figures, then on welding sculptures, and additionally producing [[lithographs]].{{cite web |title=Richard Howard Hunt – Artist Biography for Richard Howard Hunt |url=http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Richard_Howard_Hunt/22373/Richard_Howard_Hunt.aspx |access-date=December 12, 2017 |website=Askart.com}} Interested in [[Modernism]], [[Abstract expressionism|Abstract Expressionism]], and [[Surrealism]], he experimented with the [[Assemblage (art)|assemblage]] of broken machine parts, car bumpers, and metals from the junkyard reshaping them into organic forms.{{Cite book|last=Patton|first=Sharon|title=African-American Art|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998}} Hunt went on to work with iron, steel, copper, and aluminum producing a series of “hybrid figures”, references to human, animal, and plant forms.{{Cite book|last=Marter|first=Joan|title=The Grove encyclopedia of American art|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|volume=1|location=Oxford: New York}} Hunt explored the interplay of organic and industrial subject matter in his artwork. His earliest works, often represented classical themes, were more figural than his later ones. Hunt began exhibiting his sculptures nationwide while still a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a Junior, his piece “Arachne,” was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He received a bachelor’s of arts in education (BAE) from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1957.
Hunt graduated early from [[Englewood High School (Chicago, IL)|Englewood High School]] in January 1953 and entered the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] later that year. While studying at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] Hunt focused first on creating soldered wire figures, then on welding sculptures, and additionally producing [[lithographs]].{{cite web |title=Richard Howard Hunt – Artist Biography for Richard Howard Hunt |url=http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Richard_Howard_Hunt/22373/Richard_Howard_Hunt.aspx |access-date=December 12, 2017 |website=Askart.com}} Interested in [[Modernism]], [[Abstract expressionism|Abstract Expressionism]], and [[Surrealism]], he experimented with the [[Assemblage (art)|assemblage]] of broken machine parts, car bumpers, and metals from the junkyard reshaping them into organic forms.{{Cite book|last=Patton|first=Sharon|title=African-American Art|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998}} Hunt went on to work with iron, steel, copper, and aluminum producing a series of “hybrid figures”, references to human, animal, and plant forms.{{Cite book|last=Marter|first=Joan|title=The Grove encyclopedia of American art|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|volume=1|location=Oxford: New York}} Hunt explored the interplay of organic and industrial subject matter in his artwork. His earliest works, often represented classical themes, were more figural than his later ones. Hunt began exhibiting his sculptures nationwide while still a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a Junior, his piece “Arachne,” was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He received a bachelor’s of arts in education (BAE) from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1957.
[[File:Hunt From the Sea 1983 Shot-01 small.jpg|thumb|Richard Hunt’s “From the Sea” 1983, Welded bronze, 71 × 45 × 64 in. (180 × 114 × 163 cm)]]
[[File:Hunt From the Sea 1983 Shot-01 small.jpg|thumb|Richard Hunt’s “From the Sea” 1983, Welded bronze, 71 × 45 × 64 in. (180 × 114 × 163 cm)]]
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