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In the mid-1940s Graham Sutherland, an influential British artist, gave his friend Lucian Freud a set of his own etching tools as a gift. Freud had made two linocuts in 1936, and a single pen lithograph in 1944: they were not notable successes. Sutherland, who was a keen sponsor of the young Freud
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Bridget Riley created some of the most era-defining images in the history of art, her black and white optical art provided a visual summary for 'Swinging London'. By 1960 and approaching her late-twenties, Riley had settled into a dynamic style of hard-edged abstraction with, often, wild optical p
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Photograph: William Scott and Stanley Jones at the Curwen Studio, 1961*
William Scott was one of the first artists in Britain, along with Patrick Heron, to develop a dialogue with America's Abstract Expressionists and to evolve this influence into an independently British movement. Although born
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Shintaro Miyake is a painter and performance artist who produces pictures and installations of great eccentricity. Born in Tokyo in 1970, Miyake's individual work involves creating extraordinarily complex imaginary worlds populated by a diverse range of creatures with whom he has developed a fixat
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With his revolutionary approaches to modes of representation and creation in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, collages, and prints that contributed to several art movements, including Cubism and Surrealism, Pablo Picasso is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th cen
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Julian Dyson was a British Outsider Artist, entirely self-taught, from St. Mawes in Cornwall. Dyson initially qualified and practised as a dentist: the need to make art, however, proved too strong and he devoted his life to painting, drawing and carving at the first opportunity. His early work, un
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Richard Hamilton, if not coining the term Pop Art, at least caused it to come into existence by including the word Pop in Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? the hugely influential collage created in 1956 for the catalogue of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition This
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Stefan Sehler is based in Düsseldorf and Berlin, and lives and works in both cities. Sehler creates his works in an unconventional manner, working with oil and metallic paint on the reverse of plexiglass panels. This entirely painstaking and precise process, although having the appearance of inten
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Slawomir Elsner was born in Poland in 1976, studied art in Kassel, Germany, and now lives and works in Berlin. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions in Europe and America including the influential shows Poles Apart at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2005 and Very Abstract and Hyp
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Ryan Gander is a conceptual artist working in a variety of forms and media: children's books; printed stories; typography; lecture; performance; sculpture; installation. His various works are positioned between the playful and the rigorous, the cerebral and the aesthetic, the dour and the comedic.
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Tonico Lemos Auad is a Brazilian artist, living and working in London. Having graduated from Goldsmith's College in 2000, he was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize at London's ICA in 2004. Auad was also included in The British Art Show 06, at London's Hayward Gallery. Auad's work uses a grea
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Anj Smith is an English artist, a graduate of Goldsmiths College, who continues to live and work in London. By the age of only 25, in 2003, Smith had been included in Tate Britain's, The Golden Resistance, and two years later, the same year as her MA graduation, in Hauser & Wirth Zürich's surv
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Marchéllo’s paintings are thoughtful, beautiful, powerful and affecting. His paintings are essentially documents of a release of emotion, a common project for many artists, yet it is the quality of his painting that sets Marchéllo apart. Each work is rendered in layer upon layer of vibrant oils, t
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Initially influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró, the Spanish abstract painter Manolo Millares began his self-taught career in his native Canary Islands, where he enjoyed great success. He was co-founder, in 1949, of the magazine Planas de Poesia and directed the series of art monographs Argueros.
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A printmaking graduate of the Royal College of Art, Liz Neal's first significant exhibition 'Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the People' curated by Martin Maloney for the Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London in 2001 consisted of a whole room of sexual painting and collages. The en
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A graduate of Chelsea School of Art in 2004, Nogah Engler showed in London for the first time in 2005. Since that time she has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has been short-listed for the International Castellón Painting Prize and the Celeste Painting Prize in 2006. In the same ye
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Doug Fishbone is an American artist who lives and works in London. A graduate of Goldsmiths College, he is well known for his geo-political project 30,000 Bananas, a huge mountain of ripe bananas installed in the middle of London's Trafalgar Square which was later given away free to the audience.
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Born in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's greatest living photographers, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is proven by more than 300 books which he has published over the last four decades. His work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex
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Alexandre da Cunha is a Brazilian artist living and working in London, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in 1999. As early as 2003, his work was included in The Structure of Survival at the 50th Venice Biennale. His work explores themes of national identity and stereotyping, and often utilise
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Damien Hirst is an English artist, living and working in England. He is the best known of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. His early career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, and the gallery White C
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Thomas Grünfeld works in several different media, and is noted in particular for his taxidermy pieces: 'Misfits". These works have their origins in a popular storytelling tradition, wolperfinger, from his native southern Germany in which stories tell of improbable animals with human traits. Grünfe
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James Ireland’s work references signs of an idealised landscape: sunsets, blue skies, untainted faraway lands, a lone tree or organic patterns such as twigs and crystal formations. However, the works are situated firmly within our cultivated world, where the romantic view of landscape is yet anoth
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Sandra Cinto is a Brazilian artist living and working in São Paulo. She studied art at the Faculdades Integradas Teresa D’Ávila, San André, Brazil. She also received fellowships from Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2000–01) and Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2005). Solo exhibitions of Cinto’s
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Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, Cockrill studied painting at Wrexham School of Art before teaching at Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. He was a central figure in Liverpool’s artistic life, funded by the Arts Council and regularly exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery, before h
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Akira Ikezoe is a Japanese artist who lives and works in New York. Ikezoe is greatly interested in the notion of an otherworld in nature, a world where it is possible for seeds to watch and wait before sprouting, and for humans to be knowingly connected with such flora. The creation of entire worl
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Uwe Kowski studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig from 1984 to 1989, and initially intended to become a signwriter, having trained particularly in that skill. The reunification of Germany coincided with his graduation at HgB Leipzig and Kowski was then mor
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Edgar Leciejewski is a German photographer, living and working in Berlin and Leipzig. From 2003 until 2009, he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Professors Timm Rautert and Christopher Muller, completing his Masters under Prof. Peter Piller. In 2010, Leciejews
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Maarten Baas is a German designer, living and working in the Netherlands. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, and at the Politecnico in Milan. His first commercial success, the Knuckle candleholder, was created whilst he was still a student.
His famous Smoke collection is made by litera
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Victor Anton was a British artist who achieved international attention in the early 1950s as a contributor to Contemporary British Artists, a British Council exhibition in France in 1951. The eyes of the world were on the Festival of Britain that year, and the British style, exemplified in the wor
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Mary Fedden was the last of a generation of English women artists that had its roots in the Bloomsbury Group, and the French Modernist and St. Ives schools, and which included Winifred Nicholson, Mary Newcomb and Mary Potter.
Enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art in 1932, Fedden soon met Vla
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Hungarian-born Victor Vasarely is known as a founder of optical art. Vasarely was born in Pecs and grew up in Piešťany (then Pöstyén) and Budapest where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Budapest University. In 1927 he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Po
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Miriam Vlaming is a German artist living and working in Berlin. Vlaming studied first in Düsseldorf where she was tutored by Jan Dibbets, and was in close contact with Jörg Immendorff, Marcus Lüpertz and Dieter Krieg. She then trained at the Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst under Prof.
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Matthias Weischer studied painting at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig, a student of Professor Sighard Gille. In 2002, he was co-founder of the artist-run gallery LIGA in Berlin that was run by eleven former HGB students, among them Christoph Ruckhäberle, Tim Eitel, David Schne
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Richard Wilson, born 1953, is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors. He is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction.
Wilson has exhibited widely nationally and international
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Miao Xiaochun is renowned for his photographs of contemporary China, vast cityscapes which record technological development, painting an alien view of his homeland and envisioning a new dynastic era.
In his latest body of work, The Last Judgement in Cyberspace, Miao Xiaochun appropriates Michela
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Following the Young Contemporaries exhibition of 1961, where he exhibited with David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj, Peter Blake was seen as a central figure in the emerging British Pop Art movement. He had already been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and had his first
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Dan Flavin was a conceptual artist concerned with making effects of light using white and coloured fluorescent tubes.
Flavin’s first works were drawings and paintings that reflected the influence of Abstract Expressionism: he had been employed as a guard and elevator operator at the Museum of Mo
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Zeng Hao is a Chinese artist living and working in Beijing. His paintings of tiny figures floating in the air challenge orthodoxy and realist representation, and he was dismissed as a teacher at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts because of his unconventional painting style. Critics have labeled Zeng
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Born in Manchester, England, in 1953, Hughie O'Donoghue's Irish heritage and deep connection to his roots have had a profound influence on his artistic expression. His exploration of personal and collective memory is highly individual and he is considered amongst Ireland’s most important artists.
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Zhang Hui is a Chinese artist living and working in Beijing. She studied at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, China,
Solo Exhibitions
2007
In our opinion, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam
2006
Beijing Wawa, Gong Gallery, Beijing, China
Old Photo, Beijing Gallery Space, Beij
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Books on the subject of 20thC and Contemporary Irish Art, or collections of Irish Art
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Howard Hodgkin is an English painter and printmaker, living and working in London. He became concerned to make the picture an object, and from the late 1960s he has painted on wooden supports, such as framed drawing boards or door panels, allowing the paint to cover every undulation of the framed
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Books about movements in 20thC and Contemporary Italian Art or on Modern Italian Art in general.
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Thomas Demand is a German sculptor and photographer living and working in Berlin and Los Angeles. He teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.
Demand is a conceptual artist who constructs incredibly detailed three-dimensional models, which he then photographs: the results appear to be rea
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General titles on movements in 20thC British Art, aspects of 20thC British Art or 20thC British Art in general.
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Alfred Wallis became famous only in old age after Ben Nicholson paid his first visit to St Ives in Cornwall with his friend Christopher Wood. Wandering through the narrow streets near Porthmeor Beach in 1928, the pair suddenly discovered – through an open door in Back Road West – some astonishingl
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James Dixon was an Irish artist who was born on Tory Island, County Donegal, and aside from the occasional visit to the mainland, remained on the island all his life. He started painting at the age of 72, after seeing a British painter, Derek Hill, at work on a landscape on Tory Island. His story
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Yannick Demmerle is a French photographer who lives and works in Tasmania. Demmerle is well regarded for his early photographs of forests and woods at night. As Peter Herbstreuth has remarked, Demmerle doesn’t depict nature as untamed and wild, but as domesticated and governed by the principles of
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One of the most respected sculptors of his generation, Lynn Chadwick was a towering force in the field of post-war British sculpture. His work spans fifty years and includes over a thousand pieces.
Having to learn welding in order to realise his designs, Chadwick executed many large scale sculpt
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Anatoly Shuravlev is a Russian artist, living in Moscow and Berlin.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
"PANIC!", AFTERGALLERY, projectroom, Moscow, Russia
"Temporary Visual Wound", CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2008
"Black Holes", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerlan
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Hiroko Nagao is a Japanese artist living and working in Tokyo. Her incredibly intricate pen drawings are reminiscent of European works of high Art Nouveau, but hail from the great tradition of Japanese ink drawing. Her detailed, ornate drawings convey enormous respect for the medium and demand gre
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Stanley Spencer was an English, early modernist, painter and draughstman, mainly of ambitiously sized biblical works. He studied at the Slade School of Art, where his contemporaries included Dora Carrington, Paul Nash, David Bomberg and C.R.W. Nevinson. Nevinson dubbed Spencer 'Cookham', after the
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Mary Newcomb was a self-taught English painter whose work was greatly acclaimed by fellow artists from Ben Nicholson to Mary Fedden. Her passion was nature, and in 1945, she volunteered as a student helper in the Flatford Mill Field Studies Centre being set up by bird painter Eric Ennion: there, o
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Sarah Pickstone is an English artist, living and working in London. Formerly a prizewinner at the John Moores 23 competition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 2004, Pickstone achieved First Prize in John Moores 2012, Britain's leading contemporary painting exhibition. Her work was selected b
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz was one of the first artists to merge the realms of performance and installation art. Chaimowicz distinguished himself in an era of stark minimalism by his unabashed pursuit of the beautiful, establishing himself in the 1970s with art that was playful and subtly seductive.
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The Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida was born in San Sebastian in the Basque country. In 1943 Chillida began to study architecture, but soon dropped out.
In 1947 he registered at the private art academy "Circulo de Bellas Artes" in Madrid, where he initially focused on working with gypsum and c
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John Randall Bratby was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. Born in Wimbledon, Bratby studied at Kingston College from 1948 to 1950, then at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1954. Three years after his graduation he beca
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Born 1951, England Lives and works in London
SOLO & JOINT EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS
2010 Gina Burdass and Michael Brick, What You See Is What You Get, Broadbent Gallery, London
2005 Gina Burdass – Paintings, Archeus, London
2004 Gina Burdass and Kevin Laycock: New Paintings, Art First, L
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Winifred Nicholson was an English painter, a colourist who developed a personalized impressionistic style that concentrated on domestic subjects and landscapes. In her work, the two motifs are often combined in a view out of a window, featuring flowers in a vase or a jug. Her interest in painting
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The Italian sculptor, painter and graphic artist Marino Marini enrolled at the 'Accademia di Belli Arti' in Florence in 1917. While he was still an art student, mediterranean antiquity, international Gothic style and medieval rennaissance had a formative influence on him. From 1928 the artist made
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Carla Zaccagnini is an Argentinian artist, living and working in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her work is often concerned with the fallibility of perception and she has created many works which are deliberately disconcerting and require mental agility from the viewer to decode what may be happening in any g
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Books about recent photography in Leipzig, in particular the Klasse Rautert: Students of Prof. Timm Rautert from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
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Meese attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but left the school before completing his studies and was picked up by Berlin gallery Contemporary Fine Arts. An early installation Ahoi der Angst was presented at the first Berlin Biennale in 1998. Susanne Titz, writing about the Biennale
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Although Conrad Marca-Relli began his artistic career as a painter, he is recognized as one of the American masters of collage and part of the first generation of abstract expressionism. Self-taught, except for a brief stint at Cooper Union in New York City, he has exhibited often in New York City
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Erick Beltrán is a Mexican artist living and working in Barcelona. He received a BFA from the Universidad Áutonoma de México, Mexico City, in 1997.
Erick Beltrán’s work often takes the form of printouts, newspapers, leaflets, publications and more recently sculptures—text and image structures th
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Jonathan Borofsky an American artist who lives and works in Maine. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University, France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and then Yale University.
In the 1960s, Borofsky's art sought to interconnect minimalism and pop art, and he is seen as a unique and significant presence i
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Books about movements in 20thC and Contemporary Latin American Art or on Modern Latin American Art in general.
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François Morellet is a French artist, who began exploration into abstract geometric forms as early as the late 1940s. Morellet can be considered an exponent of Concrete Art, although his work essentially anticipated Minimalism and Conceptual Art. He was a founding member of the artists' group GRAV
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Paule Hammer is a German artist living and working in Leipzig. Hammer is a graduate of the famous Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, where he studied under Prof. Sighard Gille.
Wantonly various in his output, working methods, subject matter and concerns, Hammer fits into an unique trad
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Heinz Mack is a German artist, living and working in Mönchengladbach and Ibiza. Mack's principle concern is with light, and he considers his sculptures and paintings a medium only for the transport of light. In 1957 Mack founded the ZERO Group with fellow artists Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, who
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Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Tokyo. He produces paintings, drawings and sculpture which are cartoon-like in appearance, but contain a deep and often disquieting beauty. His work first came to attention in Japan in the 1990s and was almost immediately noticed by severa
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Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist of mixed-race ancestry: his father was a Chinese immigrant, his mother was herself mothered by a Congolese former slave and a Cuban mulatto father. Lam was surrounded by many people of African descent and, through his family, was exposed to African celebrations and
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Sean Scully is an Irish painter living and working in New York City, Barcelona, and Munich, where he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.
He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums and public galleries,
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Julian Trevelyan was an English artist, a principal member of the English Surrealist movement, who exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition held at the New Burlington Galleries in London. Educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Trevelyan moved to Paris to become an a
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Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist. Educated and trained in Caracas, he immediately associated himself with the avant-garde producing works that were remarkable for their illusions of sensory vibrations. He directed the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Maracaibo from 1947 to 195
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Bryan Pearce was born in St Ives, Cornwall in 1929, a sufferer, from birth, of the then unknown condition Phenylketonuria, which affects the normal development of the brain. Pearce's mother, who was a painter, encouraged her son to paint, hoping that it would have a therapeutic effect. Pearce enjo
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Lyonel Feininger was an American artist born in New York City to German/American parents. In 1888, he moved to Berlin and studied at the Königliche Akademie under Ernst Hancke. He became a caricaturist for several magazines including Berliner Tageblatte, exhibiting drawings at the exhibitions of t
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David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, and was a key member of the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, he studied at the Royal College of Art. He was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries with Peter Blake,
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Carl Andre is an American artist living and working in New York. He was a leading member of the Minimalist movement of the early to mid 1960s.
At the age of 22 Andre began to work as as an editorial assistant for a publishing house in New York. At that time he began executing wood sculptures, th
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Enrico Castellani, an Italian artist best known for his monochrome canvases stretched over patterns of nails, was formally trained as an architect. Castellani first began making art whilst working in the architectural practice of Franco Bruzzi, who collaborated in his early works. In 1959 Castella
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Euan Uglow was a British artist, best known for his meticulous paintings of the human figure, still lives and landscapes, which he created using a measuring process, often leaving hints of marks, measuring points and calculations on the finished works.
Uglow studied at Camberwell School of Art u
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Leon Kossoff is an English painter and draughtsman, living and working in London. A fellow student, colleague and friend of Frank Auerbach, he is considered to be a member of the informal 'School of London' group. Kossoff paints in extremely thick impasto in a style that is more akin to drawing wi
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Ricarda Roggan is a German photographer. She was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, studying under the influential Professor Timm Rautert. Initially creating works which document architectural disuse in the former DDR, Roggan's work has evolved to include artistic proce
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Auerbach was born in Berlin and was sent to Britain in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution. Left behind in Germany, his parents died in a concentration camp in 1942.
Auerbach began studying art, having toyed with the notion of becoming an actor, and attended St Martin's School of Art from 1948 to 1
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Francis Bacon’s early life was unsettled and spent between England and Ireland: as a child he only received two years of formal schooling. On a small allowance from his mother, he took himself to London, and then to Berlin where he became engrossed in the art scene of the city which was thriving a
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Josef Albers is well known for his compositions that explore the relationships of colour through a single, simple form, usually the square. He studied in various institutions in Germany before enrolling in the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921. He began to work in stained glass and printmaking and in 1923
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Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) was a distinguished British portrait artist whose career spanned over five decades. Born in Kolkata, India, Hutchinson was introduced to art early, with a multicultural upbringing that influenced his artistic style, blending Western techniques with Eastern sensi
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