Anthony Caro
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| Born |
Anthony Alfred Caro 8 March 1924 New Malden, England |
| Died | 23 October 2013 (aged 89) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Regent Street Polytechnic |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Sculpture, drawing |
| Notable work | Twenty Four Hours (1960) |
| Movement | Constructed steel sculpture, abstract art, modernism |
| Spouse(s) | Sheila Girling (m. 1949); 2 children) |
| Awards | CBE (1969) Knighthood (1987) Order of Merit (2000) |
| Website | www |
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 – 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation.
Caro was born in New Malden, England to a Jewish family and was the youngest of three children. When Caro was three, his father, a stockbroker, moved the family to a farm in Churt, Surrey. Caro was educated at Charterhouse School where his housemaster introduced him to Charles Wheeler. In the holidays he studied at the Farnham School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) worked in Wheeler's studio. He later earned a degree in engineering at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1946, after time in the Royal Navy, he studied sculpture at the Regent Street Polytechnic before pursuing further studies at the Royal Academy Schools from 1947 until 1952.
Anthony Caro encountered modernism when working as an assistant to Henry Moore in the 1950s. After being introduced to the American sculptor David Smith in the early 1960s, he abandoned his earlier figurative work and started constructing sculptures by welding or bolting together pieces of steel such as I-beams, steel plates and meshes. Twenty Four Hours (1960), in Tate Britain since 1975, is one of his earliest abstract sculptures in painted steel. Often the finished piece was then painted in a bold flat colour.
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