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Eduardo PaolozziSir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (born March 7 1924 in Edinburgh) CBE FRA, is a Scottish sculptor and artist. He holds the office of Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary. Paolozzi was born in Leith in north Edinburgh, the eldest son of Italian immigrants. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943 and then at the Slade School or Art in London from 1944 to 1947, after which he worked in Paris, France. Largely a surrealist, Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960s by producing a range of striking screenprints. Paolozzi was a leading light in the 60s British pop art movement. Latterly he has become better known as a sculptor. Paolozzi is known for producing largely lifelike statuary works, but with rectilinear (often cubic) elements added or removed, or the human form deconstructed in a cubist manner. His works include: Paolozzi was awarded the CBE in 1968 and in 1979 he was elected to the Royal Academy. He became Sir Eduardo upon his knighthood in 1989. In 1994 Paolozzi gave the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art a large body of his works, and much of the content of his artists studio. In 1999 the National Galleries of Scotland opened the Dean Gallery to display this collection, and the gallery displays a reproduction of Paolozzi's studio, with its contents arranged as they were in the original London location. Paolozzi, Eduardo Paolozzi, Eduardo
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