Eduardo Paolozzi

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Eduardo Paolozzi was a Scottish artist born in 1924 to Italian immigrant parents. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943, St Martin's School of Art in 1944, and the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London until 1947. He left for Paris shortly after, where he met influential artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque and Fernand Leger. Paolozzi became interested in Surrealism and in representations of modern machinery, with which he experimented by incorporating into his own work. In the 1950s he turned to the human form for inspiration, and by the 1960s he was producing screenprints that combined hard-edged abstract designs with figurative and mechanical elements, and text.