| (César Baldaccini) (1921- ) French experimental artist, printmaker and sculptor, best recognized for his use of scrap materials and as one of the founder of NOUVEAU RÉALISME. Trained at the ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Marseilles and ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Paris, César has continued to create very varied art, through his prolific career as an artist. His best recognized works are: COMPRESSIONS (which are essentially scrapped cars crushed into dense packages), for example THE YELLOW BUICK, MOMA, New York; and EXPANSIONS (artworks created with plastics, such as the THUMB, TATE GALLERY, London). |
