Interior Mini-Biography About the Artist

Question:-

Pick an artist from an art movement. Create a mini-biography about the artist.
Include the following five points:
1. artists name,
2. dates,
3. list a few major works/dates,
4. describe the artist’s ideas about their art (their manifesto)

Answer:-

Carl Andre is one of the most famous American Sculptors as well as conceptual artists who contributed to taking conceptual art to a new height. He was born on September 16, 1935, in Quincy, Massachusetts. His movements as well as styles have been recognized as Minimalism and conceptual art. One of his famous quotes that have made a significant impact on several other artists and the world of art is “My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.”

He completed his schooling from his hometown and then moved to Kenyon College in Ohio. Unfortunately, he could not continue his education and soon drop out of college. After dropping out of college, he spent sometimes working in Quincy. During that time, between 1955 and 1956, he completed his military service at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Then, he moved to New York in 1957 with an aim to focus on writing poetry as well as making art. He was living in Lower Manhattan where he met with painter Frank Stella and Hollis Frampton (Andre, 2020). They become very good friends. Both of his friends had attended Philips Academy. Carl Andre got introduced to the poetry as well as essays of Ezra Pound and with the passage of time he got highly interested in the work of the sculpture Constantin Brancusi. Carl Andre started experimenting with found blocks of wood carving as well as sawing them into simple geometric shapes. Over time, he developed skills and mastery in sculpture and became one of the famous artists.

He experimented a lot during his early career as an artist but since the mid-1960s, the underlying premises of the artwork of Carl Andre has remained unchanged as the procedure for making the work has not changed. His work displayed a wide range of characteristics that helped him to be famous and well-known throughout the world. Due to the distinctive characteristics, his artworks were instantly recognizable. For example, many of his works are extremely low-lying along with undermining all traditional associations about the relation of sculptures to the upright human body (Andre, 2020). Carl Andre became closely related to the Coalition of Art Workers that is based in New York in 1969. Unfortunately, his reputation as an artist damaged severely in 1985 by a tragic event in his personal life. Some of his artworks that are well-known to the world are;