A display of his figurative busts
A display of his figurative busts. Preceding his radical breakthrough to abstraction in 1960, the human figure was a principal preoccupation of Caro's art. In the last 20 years he has returned to this motif, making drawings and sculptures that are a response to an observed model or sitter. Since the mid-1980s, Caro's work has proceeded on an ever-broadening front, achieving a remarkable diversity in a range of materials including steel, bronze, lead, ceramic, silver, wood and paper.