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"A self-taught artist, Trova's early efforts were influenced by Expressionist painters, Dubuffet and DeKooning. He established his own identity in the early 1960s with the Falling Man series which he developed in paintings, graphics, assemblage, and sculpture for more than 10 years. Characteristic features of his prints from this series are the silhouette figures arranged in formal circles, and executed in dense, flat, primary colors that eliminate any sense of space.
In the early 1970s Trova shifted his focus to large- scale, geometric constructions in steel, but he returned to the Falling Man theme again in the 1980s."