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Introduction
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy ((1920-01-06)January 6, 1920 – (2006-02-08)February 8, 2006), a figurative French sculptor, was born "Jean Robert" in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had a distinct style, combining abstract elements with the human figure, often in the écorché style of French anatomists. The American writer John Updike once wrote that he "may be France's foremost living sculptor, but he is little known in the United States".: 157  He and other critics noted sharp contrasts between rough and smooth, abstract and realistic, tender and violent, delicate and crude, and many other paired oppositions in his artwork, and his recurrent themes of sex, birth, growth, decay, death, and resurrection.: 158–171  Ipoustéguy was unafraid to depict emotional intensity in a sometimes controversial way; several of his major commissioned works were rejected, but later installed as planned, or in other locations.
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Introduction
Comment on works: painter; sculptor
Nationality
French
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Architect, Genre Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor
Names
Jean Robert Ipoustéguy, Jean Ipousteguy, Jean-Robert Ipousteguy, Jean Ipoustéguy, Jean Ipostéguy, Jean Robert, jean ipousteguy
Ulan
500003494
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