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Soulages’ natural etching style had been to scrape away the varnished surface to expose the copper plate, in gestures that moved back towards him, rather than to incise by way of a pushing motion. When a design had begun to take shape, the copper plate would be bathed in acid and the acid would bite
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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"What fascinates me is not just technology but the technology of picture-making,” says Hockney. “I spend more time painting, of course, but I treat the iPad as a serious tool. The iPad is influencing the paintings now with its boldness and speed.”
So said David Hockney in a Los Angeles Times intervi
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David Hockney's investigation into the newly invented technology of colour photocopying in 1986, which resulted in the series Home Made Prints, typifies the artist's restless drive and skill in invention over 6 decades. Hockney, fascinated by the new devices, deconstructed the multi-colour printing
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Born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Paul Waters attended Saturday classes at the city's Fleisher Memorial Art School. The artist recalled “They let me use my fingers instead of brushes”.
Waters graduated from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and received his Master’s degree from the Bank Street Co
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One of the most versatile and celebrated British artists of all time, David Hockney has worked across a multitude of mediums and projects from portraiture, opera set designs, photocollage and iPad drawings. Hockney’s etchings, however, perhaps best demonstrate the artist’s unique graphic style that
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Soulages’ natural etching style had been to scrape away the varnished surface to expose the copper plate, in gestures that moved back towards him, rather than to incise by way of a pushing motion. When a design had begun to take shape, the copper plate would be bathed in acid and the acid would bite
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'I don't paint light. I present a colour situation which releases light as you look at it.'
From 1974 until 1979, the fundamental unit of Bridget Riley's paintings was the curve. A broadening and a deepening of Riley's understanding of the relation of colour and light can be discerned in her curve p
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This print was produced for Parkett magazine, issue no. 61. Each issue of Parkett was produced in close cooperation with artists, 270 of whom were also commissioned to create an editioned artwork in the medium of their choice, which could range from sculpture, painting, photography, prints and drawi
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Marc Quinn is a notable member of the Young British Artists, an influential group of artists who came to prominence in the art world during the 1990s, including Damien Hirst, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin, among others. Quinn’s sculptures and installations examine identity, media and perception throu
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In 1991, London's Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his final show, ‘Cave’, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91'. Instantly gaining notoriety through this installation, Tu
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Lisa Brice grew up in South Africa during a particularly volatile time in the country’s history. This still informs the works she creates today.
In 1998, Brice travelled to London for a residency at Gasworks Studios. In 1999, she was invited to undertake a workshop i
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Employing a multitude of borrowed art historical references, Brice depicts strangely familiar scenes in new and often unsettling ways. Where figures might previously have been depicted as objectified nudes or damsels in distress, Brice recasts them in new situations with a sense of autonomy. Brice h
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Born in Altmar, New York, in 1885, Milton Avery moved with his family to Hartford, Connecticut in 1905. After studying at the Connecticut League of Art Students, he worked a succession of night jobs in order to paint during the daytime. Avery moved to New York in 1925 and in 1926 married Sally Miche
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A. R. Penck was born in 1939 in Dresden with the birth name Ralf Winkler, as a child he witnessed first hand the dreadful firebombing of the city and the end of WWII. In the early 1950s, following tuition with Jürgen Böttcher, he was invited to join the artist's group Erste Phalanx Nedserd. The pain
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Initially conceived in 1989 and developed during the following years, Roy Lichtenstein began The Interiors, a series of work depicting ideal but banal domestic environments inspired by furniture ads the artist found in telephone books or on billboards. The works were created using a combination of p
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Bold, graphic and industrial are descriptors often applied to the work of Roy Lichtenstein, a pioneer of American Pop Art, and at first glance, place his commercially influenced artworks in binary opposition to the Impressionist paintings of Claude Monet. Yet, Lichtenstein frequently referenced the
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'I don't paint light. I present a colour situation which releases light as you look at it.'
From 1974 until 1979, the fundamental unit of Bridget Riley's paintings was the curve. A broadening and a deepening of Riley's understanding of the relation of colour and light can be discerned in her curve p
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Generally considered to be one of the most important living artists in the world, Gerhard Richter's diverse paintings cover a range of artistic genres, from Realism and Naturalism to Impressionism, Pop Art, Conceptualism, and Post-Abstract Expressionism.
Born in Dresden in 1932, Richter's childhood
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The Russian-born French painter Nicolas de Stäel was remarkable for his attempts to combine figuration and abstraction, during his short career, at a time when the two concepts seemed irreconcilable.Stäel was born into an aristocratic family in St. Petersburg that was forced to seek exile following
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This print is based on the wall drawing Composition with Circles 5, 2005 (BR 427), first installed in the exhibition Prolog, Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 2005.
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An American artist of German origin, Hans Hofmann was an influential 20th century painter and teacher whose work was critical in the development of abstract expressionism.
Born in 1880, he showed an early interest in science and mathematics but did not turn to fine art until he moved to Munich in
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Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, the state after which he changed his name 30 years later, Robert Indiana, was best known for the mid-1960s pop art classic Love.
In his New York studio he mapped the divisions of his country, reacting to the racial injustice and violence in the deep south In
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On occasion ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN deals in fine and rare objects of Natural Prehistory.
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Gogottes are prehistoric, naturally occurring sandstone concretions. They are formed from quartz crystals and calcium carbonate when superheated water extrudes through crevices over time into a basin of fine white silica sand. The silica then cements the sand together to form the gogottes' fluid lin
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Gogottes are prehistoric, naturally occurring sandstone concretions. They are formed from quartz crystals and calcium carbonate when superheated water extrudes through crevices over time into a basin of fine white silica sand. The silica then cements the sand together to form the gogottes' fluid lin
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Gogottes are prehistoric, naturally occurring sandstone concretions. They are formed from quartz crystals and calcium carbonate when superheated water extrudes through crevices over time into a basin of fine white silica sand. The silica then cements the sand together to form the gogottes' fluid lin
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Edmontosaurus was a large herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period. Its name means "Edmonton lizard" after the location of its discovery (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). The species was part of the Hadrosauridae, or duckbill family of dinosaurs, known for their distinctive teeth
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Gogottes are prehistoric, naturally occurring sandstone concretions. They are formed from quartz crystals and calcium carbonate when superheated water extrudes through crevices over time into a basin of fine white silica sand. The silica then cements the sand together to form the gogottes' fluid lin
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Gogottes are prehistoric, naturally occurring sandstone concretions. They are formed from quartz crystals and calcium carbonate when superheated water extrudes through crevices over time into a basin of fine white silica sand. The silica then cements the sand together to form the gogottes' fluid lin
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Placenticeras (aka "flat horn") was a fast-swimming, carnivorous cephalopod—the taxonomic class that includes today's octopus, nautilus, and squid. Much like a submarine, these ammonites employed gas and fluid-filled chambers to regulate their position in the water column. The animals themselves liv
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Richard Pettibone came to prominence in the late 1960s as a leading figure in the Appropriation art movement. His practice involves making painstakingly intricate miniatures of now well-known paintings and sculptures by the likes of Brancusi, Warhol, Lichtenstein, a practice to which he has devoted
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The title of this collage refers to the brown paper shipping wrapper with a mailing label from Museo
Civico di Torino (postmarked September 2, 1974). Photographs taken over three days in November
1975 (Sloman photo nos. 333, 349, 352) documented the creation of this collage. Motherwell added
the gre
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Christo Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon were both born in 1935, he in Bulgaria, and she in Morocco. Originally working under Christo's name, they later credited their installations to both "Christo and Jeanne-Claude".
Christo studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia (1953–56) before defec
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On May 7, 1983, the installation of Surrounded Islands was completed in Biscayne Bay, between the city of
Miami, North Miami, the Village of Miami Shores and Miami Beach. Eleven of the islands situated in the
area of Bakers Haulover Cut, Broad Causeway, 79th Street Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway,
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Philip Guston was a Canadian born, American painter who famously belonged to the Abstract Expressionist movement before turning to politically charged figurative works.
He moved with his family to Los Angeles where he began painting by the age of 14, independently creating socially conscious mural p
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Harland Miller is an artist and writer whose peripatetic career has included time spent in both Europe and America. After living and exhibiting in New York, Berlin and New Orleans during the ’80s and ’90s, Miller achieved critical acclaim with his debut novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty (2000
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Jeff Koons is one of a number of American artists to emerge in the 1980s with an aesthetic devoted to the decade’s pervasive consumer culture. Koons managed to shock the art world with one audacious work after another, from displaying commercial vacuum cleaners and basketballs as his own art to maki
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In 2019, Koons created incredible prints of his 2015 “Gazing Ball” paintings. Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss), 2019 is a modern take on Gustav Klimt’s renowned 1907-1908 painting “The Kiss.” Koons’ version reinvigorates the legacy of another great artist in history; he utilizes the same composition as the
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Twins Franklyn and Brendan Connor were brought up within a secretive American cult known as ‘The Family’. Founded by David Berg in 1968 ‘The Family’ was an extreme Christian cult whose hippy members believed in something called ‘The System’. Other children brought up within the cult included the act
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At the end of the 1960s, Ed Ruscha’s “romance with liquids” produced some of his most iconic and ingenious work. “That was about 1966,” said the artist, “and I had just seen the end of the road with a certain kind of painting I was doing. I don’t know why it happened, but close-up views of liquids s
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First reproduced by the German newspaper, Die Welt, and later debuted at Musée Matisse in Nice, Hockney’s 2021 series of twenty flower iPad paintings captures various arrangements of blooms set against a backdrop of gingham tablecloths and burgundy walls. “I was just sitting at the table in our hou
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Eliasz “Elie” Nadelman was a Polish/American sculptor who became interested in classical antiquities after visiting the Glyptothek in Munich at the age of 20. He lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914 and was closely involved with the avant-garde, exhibiting at the Société des Artistes Indépendants
and at
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First reproduced by the German newspaper, Die Welt, and later debuted at Musée Matisse in Nice, Hockney’s 2021 series of twenty flower iPad paintings captures various arrangements of blooms set against a backdrop of gingham tablecloths and burgundy walls. “I was just sitting at the table in our hou
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First reproduced by the German newspaper, Die Welt, and later debuted at Musée Matisse in Nice, Hockney’s 2021 series of twenty flower iPad paintings captures various arrangements of blooms set against a backdrop of gingham tablecloths and burgundy walls. “I was just sitting at the table in our hou
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First reproduced by the German newspaper, Die Welt, and later debuted at Musée Matisse in Nice, Hockney’s 2021 series of twenty flower iPad paintings captures various arrangements of blooms set against a backdrop of gingham tablecloths and burgundy walls. “I was just sitting at the table in our hou
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Walton Ford is a contemporary American artist known for his large-scale wildlife paintings that blend realism with surrealist elements. Born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York, Ford grew up in a family of ornithologists, which sparked his lifelong fascination with animals and the natural world.
After c
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Granary depicts crimson-capped Acorn Woodpeckers guarding their cache of acorns as the Hollywood Hills, and the famed Stahl House, are threatened by wildfire. This work is a follow-up to Ford’s Calafia series, in which the artist explores California’s myth, folklore, and cinematic history. Acorn Woo
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In 1980 Riley visited Cairo and the Nile Valley and began her so-called Egyptian period, reverting to the structure of the simple stripe to contrast the colours she had witnessed in the ancient tombs. This marked the end of a complex investigation into the possibilities of the twisted curve. Having
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Sam Gilliam, born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, is now regarded as a prominent figure in the development of late 20thC and recent contemporary art. His unique approach to colour and abstraction challenged the boundaries of traditional painting, making him a prominent figure.
Gilliam's artistic jo
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