Adam Dant
British artist (born 1967)
Adam Dant (born 1967) is a Jerwood Drawing Prize-winning British artist (2002).
He has won praise from The Guardian and Financial Times for his Hogarthian graphic style.
Among the artists that have inspired him, Dant lists Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, J. M. W. Turner, George Cruikshank, Edward Burra and Saul Steinberg. Critics have most often liken Dant to William Hogarth, whose 18th-century satirical prints were created with a moral purpose in mind. "Mine are underpinned by subversion," Dant says, "dressed up in traditional clothes."
Early life
Dant was born in Cambridge in 1967 but now lives and works in London. He was educated at the Liverpool School of Art (1987–1990, Graphic Design BA), the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts (1988) and the Royal College of Art (1989–1991, Fine Art Printmaking, MA).
Career
In 1995, Dant created the Donald Parsnips Daily Journal, an art world pamphlet, that appeared daily for five years.
Dant subsequently made a reputation as the creator of "mockuments". These are works based on floor plans of the Louvre, the National Gallery and Tate Britain, in which flowcharts lead from image to image to create a psycho-history of the institution being anatomized.
Dant was the official Election Artist for the 2015 general election.
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