You’re at the beach. The sun is warm. Children’s voices echo through the air. But far from shore, the sea is heaving.
What lies beneath the glittering surface? Robert Longo’s sea is not made for escape. It’s a site of energy, violence, memory. In his monumental charcoal drawings, the ocean becomes a force of nature and of mind: sublime, terrible, alive. The works draw us in, even as they push us back. They don’t just depict the sea. they make us feel its weight, its rhythm, its power.
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