Richard Hunt (mai zane-zane)

**Richard Howard Hunt** (Satumba 12, 1935 - Disamba 16, 2023) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne kuma mai sassaka ɗan Amurka.  A rabin na biyu na ƙarni na 20, ya zama "fitaccen mai sassaka ɗan Afirka-Amurka mai kama da zane da mai zane na sassaka jama'a."  Hunt ɗan asalin Chicago ne, ya yi karatu a Makarantar Fasaha ta Chicago a shekarun 1950. Yayin da yake can ya sami kyaututtuka da yawa saboda aikinsa. A shekarar 1971, shi ne mai sassaka ɗan Afirka-Amurka na farko da ya yi nazari a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani . Hunt ya ƙirƙiri kwamitocin sassaka na jama'a sama da 160, fiye da kowane mai sassaka  a wurare masu shahara a jihohi 24 a faɗin Amurka. 

Da yake ya shafe shekaru saba'in yana aiki, Hunt ya gudanar da nune-nunen shi kaɗai sama da 170 kuma ana wakilta shi a cikin gidajen tarihi sama da 125 a faɗin duniya. Sanannen sassaka da ayyukansa na zamani da na takarda sun bayyana a nune-nunen gidajen tarihi da gidajen tarihi tun daga shekarun 1950. Richard Hunt ya yi amfani da "kayayyakin masana'antu da hanyoyin zamani don sassaka siffofi na halitta da na tarihi, kamar 'yanci, gudu, da ci gaba" a duk tsawon aikinsa.

Yana ɗaya daga cikin mawakan farko da suka yi aiki a hukumar gudanarwa ta National Endowment for the Arts kuma daga baya ya yi aiki a hukumar Smithsonian American Art Museum . A shekarar 2022, Barack Obama ya bayyana cewa "Richard Hunt yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan mawakan da Chicago ta taɓa samarwa."  

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Richard Hunt a shekarar 1935 a yankin Kudu na Chicago kuma ya girma a unguwannin Woodlawn da Englewood . Hunt da ƙanwarsa, Marian, sun girma tare da iyayensu, Cleophus Howard Hunt, mai aski, da Etoria Inez Henderson Hunt, mai kula da laburare da kuma mai kwalliya.   Mafarauta zuriyar bayi ne da aka kawo daga Yammacin Afirka ta hanyar tashar jiragen ruwa ta Savannah, kuma galibi suna ziyartar danginsu a Georgia. Duk da cewa ya ƙaura zuwa Galesburg, Illinois yana da shekara goma sha ɗaya, ya shafe mafi yawan lokacinsa a birnin Chicago.   Tun yana ƙarami yana sha'awar fasaha. Tare da mahaifiyarsa, mai kwalliya kuma mai kula da laburare, ya halarci wasannin kwaikwayo na kamfanonin opera na gida waɗanda ke rera waƙoƙin gargajiya na Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, da Handel . 

Tun yana matashi, Hunt ya fara aikinsa a fannin sassaka, yana aiki da yumbu, sassaka itace, da kuma yin zane-zanen Sculpt-Metal.  Yayin da aikinsa ya fara a wani sitidiyo na wucin gadi a ɗakin kwanansa na shekarun 1940, daga ƙarshe ya gina sitidiyo na ƙasa a shagon aski na mahaifinsa, daga baya kuma ya gina sitidiyo na ƙasa a gidan danginsa na Englewood . 

## Sana'a
Daga 1955 zuwa 1970s, Hunt ya yi amfani da tarkacen yadi a matsayin wurin hakar ma'adinai kuma ya canza ƙarfe da aka ceto zuwa sassaka masu kama da juna da aka haɗa.  Ayyukan farko kamar *Head's Head* (1956) *,* *Arachne* (1956) *, Steel Bloom, Number 10 (1956),* da *Hero Construction* (1958) sun kafa harsashin binciken Hunt na siffofi daban-daban na sassaka; da kuma haɗakar abubuwan ɗan adam, halittu, da metamorphic zuwa ayyukan fasaha guda ɗaya. Waɗannan sassaka na farko sun biyo bayan jerin abubuwan ƙarfe da aka haɗa tare da salon kira wanda ya gwada sararin samaniya. Bayan tasirin Julio González, sassaka "zane a sararin samaniya" na Hunt ya tura iyakokin ƙarfin ƙarfe don ƙirƙirar siffofi masu laushi da faɗi.  A farkon 1960s, Hunt ya fara bincika siffofi da aka rufe tare da mai da hankali kan haɗa siffofi masu zagaye, na halitta da yanayin axial. 

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