Anish Kapoor Most Famous Art Works

Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, in 1954. Considered one of the most important sculptors of his generation, Indian-British artist Anish Kapoor creates large-scale works that challenge the viewer and defy easy definition, resonating with a mythic sensibility. Taking inspiration from both Western and Indian cultural sources, Kapoor harnesses intense hues, perception-shifting mirrors, and haunting voids to draw the viewer into an experiential relationship with sculptural objects that seek to evoke a multiplicity of visual and imaginative possibilities.

Kapoor’s early education encompassed both Indian and Western culture. He moved to England in the early 1970s to attend art school. But it was during a trip back to India that things suddenly clicked into place for him. While there, he saw piles of bright hues of pigment that evoked a different approach to shape and color. He returned to England and began his first major pigment series—1000 Names—features diverse forms of intense primary colors. It also reveals the artist’s belief in the unresolved nature of the artwork, one that can take on a multitude of different meanings depending on the relationship between viewer and object.

Kapoor is very well known for his biomorphic style of structuring his sculptures, using simple shapes and bright, monochromatic colours to maximum effect. He is an internationally renowned artist who, in addition to winning some of the world’s most prestigious art prizes—including the Premio Duemila for his representation of Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale and the Turner Prize in 1991— was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 for services to visual arts.

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