Robert Mallary | i |
 
last name: Mallary
first name: Robert
birthday: December 2, 1917
birth-place: Toledo,Ohio (USA)
death date: February 10, 1997
died in: Northampton, Massachusetts (USA)
Summary

Robert Mallary was a renowned artist early in his career already, and made a pioneering contribution to “computer art”. He was a professor in the art department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from 1967 to 1996, just a year before he passed away. He is more famous even for the neo-dada junk sculpture and his use of industrial materials like acrylic and polyester plastics, with

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Biography

1925 Began studying art.
1938 to 1939 Studied at Escuela de Las Artes Del Libro, Mexico City.
Impressed by ideas of Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siquerios relating to Art and Technology and began experimenting with plastics.
1941 Studied at the Painter’s Workshop School, Boston.
1942 to 1943 Studied at the Academia San Carlos, Mexico City.
1942 to 1943
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Illustrations
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anonymous
posted almost 11 years ago
Omitted from your text is the fact Bob created the first piece of computer sculpture.
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