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Bernd and Hilla Becher were a partnership of hugely influential German photographers who lived and worked in Düsseldorf. They were preoccupied with the technically rigorous photography of old industrial buildings in a manner akin to industrial archaeology.
Bernhard Becher was born at Siegen and
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Sam Francis was an American painter and printmaker, celebrated for his colourful abstract works.
Encouraged to paint by David Park, Francis had already developed an abstract style before his formal training at Berkeley at the end of the 1940s. In school, he developed at an early stage the measur
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Patrick Caulfield was a painter and printmaker who lived and worked in London. He was best known for his vivid works in which areas of plain colour were surrounded by dark outlines to dramatic effect. Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1956 to 1960, and at the Royal College of Art
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Ed Ruscha is an American painter, printmaker and photographer, living and working in Los Angeles.
Ruscha first came to prominence there in the late 1950s with small collages that he made which were influenced by those of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Soon he began to refine his collages,
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Ben Nicholson was born into and perpetuated a firmly established artistic family. His father was Sir William Nicholson, a noted English Impressionist, his mother was also a painter and the sister of the acclaimed painter James Pryde. His first wife was the painter Winifred Nicholson, whilst his seco
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Eric Hebborn was a skilful artist who turned to a lucrative career in forgery at the earliest opportunity. Born into a family of many siblings, he was soon removed into borstal at the tender age of 8 for burning down his school. His talent for painting was spotted by his teachers though, and he ma
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Anthony Gormley's sculptures and drawings of the human figure are amongst the most recognisable, not only in contemporary art but, in the history of art itself. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 for Field for the British Isles, his creations relate the human body to its surrounding space in a poign
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Tom Wesselmann was an American painter and sculptor, celebrated for his iconic creations of the 'Great American Nude'.
He studied at the Hiram College in Ohio, where he was born, then studying psychology at Cincinnati university. His studies were interrupted as Wesselmann was called up for milit
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Geraldine Lanteri is an Argentinian photographer, living and working in Buenos Aires.
Lanteri has chronicled the closures of commercial establishments in the city of Buenos Aires since 2001, when Argentina’s social and economic crisis took hold. The archive of images Lojas Fechadas (Closed Sho
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Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. He is best known for his “Combines” of the 1950s: constructions in which unexpected materials and objects were employed upon painted bases.
Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and th
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Helen Frankenthaler was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and one of the founding artists of the Color Field group of painters. Frankenthaler studied at the Dalton School under Rufino Tamayo and also at Bennington College in Vermont. In 1950, she met Clement Greenberg and began a relation
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Robert Motherwell was an American painter and founder of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, whose work was purchased by New York’s MoMA as early as 1944, when the artist was not yet thirty years old.
He studied at Stanford and Harvard University, travelling to Europe immediately prio
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Jose Dávila is a Mexican conceptual artist, living and working in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Dávila's work often employs strategies of replication, distorting the intrinsic meaning of ordinary material objects and dismantling expected relationships between form and content. He observes and upsets trad
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Born in London in 1946, David Denby trained at St. Albans School of Art and Walthamstow School of Art, prior to completing a postgraduate degree at the Royal Academy between 1968 and 1971. In 1970 he won the Royal Academy portrait medal twice, as well as the Leverhulme Scholarship, and the David M
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Artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have worked collaboratively as Detanico Lain since the early 1990s.
The duo have developed a practice based on the displacement of meaning, in an interweaving of form and content that makes full use of design and display technologies. Simple procedures of
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Sol LeWitt was an American artist, living and working in New York, Italy and Connecticut.
Initially an illustrator for Seventeen magazine, LeWitt became a graphic designer in the office of architect I. M. Pei. During the first few years of the 1960s, LeWitt supplemented his meagre income by work
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Erich Heckel was a founder member of Die Brücke, one of the most significant movements in 20th Century European Art. He and his co-founders, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were greatly impressed by the work of Edvard Munch, and aimed to make a ‘Bridge’ between the tra
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Agnes Martin was an American painter, celebrated for her minimal arrangements of lines and grids.
Born in Canada, she became an American citizen in 1950, shortly before earning her MA at Columbia University. Her work was discovered by the influential New York gallerist Betty Parsons whilst both
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Andy Warhol was an American artist and a leading figure in the pop art movement, responsible for creating many of its most memorable images.
Initially a commercial illustrator, Warhol's work appropriated commercial advertising images and celebrity portraits in his paintings and, with Robert Raus
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Dadamaino was born Eduarda Emilia Maino in 1935 in Milan. Self-taught, Dada (a phonetic truncation of Eduarda) was drawn to art after studying at medical school, and by meeting Piero Manzoni in 1957, who would become a life-long friend. In 1958 she aligned herself with the Milanese avant-garde and
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Allen Jones RA is best known for his sexually motivated sculptures which brought an unique contribution to the British Pop Art movement in the 1960s. A student first at Hornsey College of Art, he then joined the alumni at the Royal College of Art, where his contemporaries were R. B. Kitaj, Peter P
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Fernando Botero is a Columbian artist, best known for his figurative paintings and sculptures which depict disproportionately large people and animals in everyday scenes.
Botero worked initially as a set designer in Columbia before moving to Madrid to study art. During the 1950s he lived in Paris
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Willem de Kooning was an illegal immigrant who became one of America’s most respected and influential painters and a leading member of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Of Dutch origin, de Kooning studied in Brussels and Antwerp before arriving in New York as a stowaway in 1926, where he found
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Born in 1919 in Los Angeles, Taro Yamamoto was an American artist of Japanese descent, present on the fringes of the New York Abstract Expressionist school. He was closely aligned with, and a personal friend of, Sam Francis. The two worked together on occasion, and Yamamoto's works of the last two
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Pierre Soulages was the last of the great painters to have been involved at the beginning of Art Informel, the post-war movement which encompassed Tachisme, Abstraction Lyrique, Gutai and CoBrA, that was the European concurrent of Abstract Expressionism and which favoured abandonment of any premed
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Ruth Aiko Asawa was an American sculptor of Japanese descent, famous for her intricately woven wire sculptures which are in many famous collections of post-war art, including the Guggenheim and the Whitney in New York.
Forced to study at a high school in an internment centre, due to her father’s
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Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer, living and working in the Catskill mountains and in New York City. Prince's first acclaimed works were appropriation pieces, or “rephotographs”, most famously of cowboys from well-known Marlboro advertisements. His practice of re-photography,
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Born in 1960 in Brooklyn, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pioneer of graffiti art and was at the centre of New York's Downtown scene. He became world renowned and is credited with revitalising the career of Andy Warhol, earning the patronage of the rich and famous in New York society. His early death,
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Joseph Cornell was an avant-garde American artist and sculptor, noteable for his pioneering and much-imitated assemblage boxes.
Despite being born into a middle-class merchant family, Cornell was thrown into poverty following the death of his father in 1917. Cornell went, along with his mother a
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Lucio Fontana was born in 1899 in Argentina to Italian and Argentinian parents. He lived in Milan from 1905 to 1922 before returning to Argentina to work as a sculptor in his father's studio. In 1926, he participated in the first exhibition of Nexus (formed in 1907), a group of young Argentinean a
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Ron Gorchov's first inclusion in a major exhibition was for the Whitney Museum's "Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six". At that time, Gorchov was part of a group of artists working in Manhattan responding to the concept of Action Painting. Gorchov had aligned himself with
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Banksy is an internationally recognised, but pseudonymous, graffiti artist and activist. His stencilled street art carries a distinct quality and style, and is often darkly humorous. Works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, water-tanks and bridges in cities around
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Lowell Blair Nesbitt was a painter and sculptor from Baltimore, Maryland. He studied fine arts in Philadelphia, and also at London’s Royal Academy. By the age of 25, Nesbitt had earned the distinction of a solo show of his abstract paintings at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Encouraged to explore re
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Sebastian Gögel is a German artist living and working in Leipzig. Gögel 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, Gögel fits into an unique trad
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Katja Stoye-Cetin is a German photographer and artist living and working in Berlin. Stoye-Cetin is a graduate of the famous Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, where she studied under Prof. Timm Rautert.
Stoye-Cetin’s work often incorporates text or language, and she has previously coll
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Birgit Brenner (b.1964) is a German artist, living and working in Berlin and Stuttgart. Brenner studied at Darmstadt and Berlin, becoming a masters student of the legendary artist Rebecca Horn.
Working in various media, Brenner’s art is concerned with dysfunctional personal relationships. Occasi
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Maripol has been described as “the gatekeeper of ‘80s club culture”. Her effortlessly stylish one-take polaroid images of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Madonna, Keith Haring, Deborah Harry and Andy Warhol document one of the most vibrant periods of New York City’s artistic history.
A student of the Écol
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Chris Makos is the American photographer without whose advice, opinions and actions, the course of American Contemporary Art would have been very different: he introduced Andy Warhol to the work of both Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and taught Andy Warhol how to use his first camera.
Ma
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Larry Bell is an American sculptor and painter, most noted for his glass cube sculptures. Bell’s cubes examine the relationship between the object and its environment through the reflective properties of the work.
Bell is identified with the Southern Californian art movement Light and Space, and
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Born in Ethopia in 1970, Mehretu fled to America with her parents at the age of 7, where she became an American national.
Mehretu is known for distinctive mark-making and her technique of layering different elements and media. Her canvases, built up through layers of acrylic paint and collage ma
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Christian Rosa is a Brazilian artist, living and working in Los Angeles and Vienna. Rosa is a recent graduate of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna where he studied under Daniel Richter. The quality of Rosa's work was spotted very early, and he has been included in a number of significant
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Born in Korea, Ki-June Park studied at Ulsan College of Fine Art, and then in England at Chelsea School of Art and Design, where he graduated in 2007.
Park's carved sculptures may have their origins in the influence of ancient Korean woodcarving, which was associated with shamanistic rituals bel
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Cats are used as objects in which the individual’s psyche is projected in Sung Yujin’s paintings. She expresses psychological crises an individual faces in today’s society such as anxiety, depression, and trauma without reason’s grip, and transfers them to cats, a common subject. The contorted phy
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Christopher Wool is a painter and photographer, living and working in New York. He is best known for his large text paintings made with over-sized letter stencils, spelling out disjointed statements.
Wool dropped out of New York Studio School where he was studying painting, and spent time as a s
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Luis Tomasello is an Argentinian artist, who lived and worked until the age of 98 in Paris, and is best known for his investigations into optical effects using angled cubes or pegs, arranged geometrically and attached to flat wooden panels.
Tomasello’s particular visual language was concerned wi
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David Partridge is an American/Canadian artist who lived and worked in Ottowa, Canada, and is best known for his works created with nails.
Born in Akron, Ohio in 1919, he settled in Canada at the age of 16, becoming naturalised in 1945 after serving in the R.C.A.F. He studied art under various m
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Keith Haring was an American artist, active in the 1980s in New York, who is considered to be the first 'street artist' in the sense that is now more widely understood. Haring used a visual language composed of outlined intertwining figures, objects and animals, in his graffiti and street works, o
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Mary Martin is a British artist, best known for her constructed works, which were exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.
Born Mary Balmford in 1907, she studied at Goldsmiths' College 1925–9 and at the R.C.A. 1929–32. She married the artist Kenneth Martin in 1930.
Martin exhibited at the A.I.A.
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Mark Grotjahn is an American artist best known for his 'Butterfly' series of drawings and paintings, a sustained investigation into perspective.
Born in Pasadena, and raised in the Bay Area, he studied at Berkeley and, in 1995, became artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and S
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Mavignier began his painting career in 1945, and after only four years of figuration became dedicated to abstraction. Moving to Paris, his work became 'concrete' and he was allowed to exhibit at the ‘Salon des Réalités Nouvelles’ in 1953. He then studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Ge
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René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist, well known for his witty and thought-provoking images which challenged viewers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art, as well as the work of the artists John Baldessari,
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First gaining recognition in the 1960s, Bernar Venet's sculpture began to be noted widely in 1979, when he began a series of Arc sculptures, and created the first of his Indeterminate Lines for which he is now internationally recognised. His work has been exhibited extensively since, with solo sho
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Bradford’s art is concerned with cities, racial identity, history and injustice. It is mainly created from everyday or discarded materials, from torn-down sheets of billstuck posters and the loose flyers of run-down urban neighborhoods. The artist is well-known for his practice of interacting with
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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and social activist who has achieved recognition internationally for his sharp anti-establishment commentary and his practice of repeatedly risking his life to defend his beliefs. He has led a number of high-profile protests spotlighting injustices in Chinese society,
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Ethan Cook (b.1983) lives and works in New York, NY. Cook has exhibited at institutions including the Fondazione 107, Turin; National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples; the Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
He has exhibited internationally, having solo shows at T293, Rome; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Americ
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Luke Diiorio (b. 1983) lives and works in New York, NY. Diiorio received his MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2013.
Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London and Art Basel Hong Kong; Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York.
Recent group ex
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Dean Levin (b. 1988) lives and works in New York, NY. Levin received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute, NY.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery/The Box, London; Boesky East, NY; Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City; Retrospec
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Petra Cortright (b.1986) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Cortright has studied fine art at Parsons The New School of Design, NY and The California College of the Arts, CA. The artist works in video, painting and digital media. She is well known her video works presented on YouTube, and makes
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Born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940 Knoebel studied at the Darmstadt Werkkunstschule under László Moholy-Nagy. He later studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow students Blinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio), and Jörg Immendorff.
Knoebel's work explores the rel
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Stephen Gilbert was born near Perth, in Scotland in 1910, of English parents, the grandson of the sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert. He studied painting at the Slade School, London, where he befriended Roger Hilton.
Gilbert’s early art was inspired by travels to Paris and in particular by Andre Masson
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Born in San Francisco in 1938, Richard Serra was the son of a shipyard worker, who went on to create abstract sculptures and works on paper celebrating immense form, weight and balance. He has written about the formative experience of watching the launching of the huge steel tankers, in which balanc
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DeWain Valentine is an American artist connected to the Light and Space movement originating in Southern California in the 1960s, pioneering the use of new materials now commonplace in art making: fibreglass, plexiglas, cast acrylic and polyester resin.
Taking its name from the title of the exhi
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Julije Knifer was a Croatian abstract painter and a founding member of a Croatian avant-garde art collective known as the Gorgona Group, active in the 1960s, and noted for its ephemeral and intellectual approach to art-making. Initially influenced by the Russian Suprematist painters, specifically
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Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer, trained in England. His work appears to be documentary, but often involves elaborate staging, and defies easy categorisation.
The first photographer and first foreign winner of the Turner Prize, Tillmans has explained of his work “I take pictures, in o
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Arnaldo Pomodoro is arguably Italy's best known living sculptor. He was born in Morciano in 1926. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930–2002) was also a sculptor.
From the mid-1940s until 1957 Pomodoro served as a consultant for the restoration of public buildings in Pesaro, while also studying stage
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Marcel Duchamp, with Picasso and Matisse, is credited with significant revolutionary influence in the development of contemporary art in the early twentieth century. Associated with Cubism, Dada, and with an unparalleled influence on conceptual art, he is regarded as a towering figure in art histo
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Jonas Wood is an American painter and printmaker, living and working in Los Angeles, California.
Wood exercises a very unique and identifiable line. His works have a complex flatness, rendered without modelling in mostly undisturbed areas of flat colour. Perspective is slight, shadow rarely used
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LA II (Angel Ortiz) (b.1967) is a grafitti artist from New York, noted in particular for his collaboration works with Keith Haring.
LA (“Little Angel') II is also known as LA2 or LA Rock, all tags which have been seen in his artwork. LA II met Keith Haring in 1980 at the age of 13 when he was al
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George Condo is an American artist (b.1957), known for coining the term ‘Artificial Realism’ to describe his approach to painting; ‘the realistic representation of that which is artificial’. Condo’s extremely distinctive work draws upon traditional elements in art history, particularly the portrai
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Donald Judd was one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era and a major figure in the Minimal Art movement. Judd, however, disliked the word Minimalist, calling himself "an empiricist" when pressed, and refused to call his work sculpture because he thought that implied carving.
Throu
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Barkley Leonnard Hendricks was a towering figure in the fields of contemporary black portraiture and conceptualism. He is best known for his dignified realist depictions of black Americans set against monochrome or richly patterned backgrounds. Created alongside, and in the aftermath of, the civil
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Richard Smith represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1970 and, amongst other distinctions, had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery in London in 1975. In the late 1950s and early 60s, Smith was often associated with American color field painting, however he soon joined
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Anish Kapoor is regarded, with Antony Gormley, as being one of the very foremost living British sculptors.
He is best known for his large scale public works, often employing highly reflective materials, which warp reflections of the surrounding environment. Chief amongst these are Cloud Gate (kn
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Jason Martin is known for his monochromatic paintings in which the surfaces of the medium are, often, dragged or combed to create a sculptural quality. These striations catch the light, and in this respect the artist’s work can be compared to the Outrenoir investigations of Pierre Soulages in Fran
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Hans-Georg Kern took the name Georg Baselitz in the late 1950s, DeutschBaselitz being his birthplace. Even by this early stage, and only in his very early twenties, he had already gained a reputation as an enfant terrible, having been expelled from East Berlin’s Hochschule für Bildende und Angewan
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Marina Apollonio studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. Alongside Bridget Riley, Apollonio is one of the most important female Op artists, in a movement that has largely been dominated by their male counterparts. From an early stage, Apollonio was in contact with Getulio Alviani, Dadama
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Anni Albers was a textile artist, designer, printmaker known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs. She enrolled at the Bauhaus in 1922 and was assigned to the Weaving Workshop. She came to approach the discipline with relentless experimentation, regularly incorporating n
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Jasper Johns came to prominence in New York in the late 1950s, when he was "discovered" by the influential art dealer Leo Castelli. By that time, he had been Robert Rauschenberg's partner for almost four years, so rather than being a discovery, his meeting Castelli was instead an inevitability.
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In a career spanning seventy years, Louise Bourgeois produced an intensely personal body of work that is as complex as it is diverse. Overlooked for many years, and unforgivably absent from the 1993 Royal Academy survey American Art in the 20th Century, she is now considered to have been one of th
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Pat Steir is best-recognised for her dripped, splashed and poured “waterfall” paintings, influenced by Chinese Yi-pin “ink-splashing” painters of the 8th and 9th centuries, which she first started in the late 1980s. Mentored by John Cage, Steir learned of “non-doing” from him, and allowed the role
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Saskia de Tollenaere is an artist working in a variety of media, particularly noted for her carefully crafted sculptural portraits of historical figures. The totemic sculptures are based upon the form of a skull, and ornamented with myriad items relating to the character, or soul, of the subject.
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Spencer Sweeney works across a number of disciplines, and has been a well-known figure in the art, nightlife, and music scenes of New York City for twenty years. As a musician and performance artist, he was a member of the seminal noise-art group Actress. As a painter and visual artist, he makes c
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Giovanni Anceschi (b.1939) is an Italian artist who is considered by many to be the founding member of kinetic and programmed art in that country. Anceschi studied theoretical philosophy at Milan University and became a founding member of Gruppo T, as well as being a fundamental participant in the
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Antonio Asis (b.1932) is an Argentinian artist and an early exponent of Op and Kinetic art. Having studied in Buenos Aires under Héctor Cartier, Asis quickly became disillusioned with concrete art and what he perceived as its intellectual limitations.
Moving to Paris in 1956, Asis immediately en
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Born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1928, Julio Le Parc studied and engaged with abstract avant-garde movements in Buenos Aires. Whilst at the School of Fine Arts there, and showing growing interest in the artistic avant-garde movement in Argentina he, along with fellow artists Hugo Demarco, F. García
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Otto Piene (1928-2014) was an avant-garde German artist, and the co-founder of the influential ZERO Group with fellow artist Heinz Mack in 1957. This group consisted of artists who wanted to redefine art after World War II. By the 1960s they were internationally known, especially in Japan, America
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Keith Sonnier (1941-2020) was part of a group of artists who challenged preconceived notions of sculpture in the late 1960s by experimenting with industrial and ephemeral materials. His materials ranged from latex and satin, to found objects, transmitters and video. In 1968, the artist began creat
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In 1971, UCLA held the exhibition which would give the Light and Space movement its name, "Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four Artists". Although James Turrell was not one of the four artists included, he is arguably its most famous exponent, and is a key figure in the history of Light Ar
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Martha Boto (1925 – 2004) was an Argentinian artist, working with kinetic and programmed art.
Boto's early work was in geometric abstraction, which developed to consider the third dimension. In 1956, she joined the Concrete art group "Arte Nuevo". She was among the first artists in Buenos Aires
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Carlos Cruz-Diez (b.1923) is a Venezuelan artist concerned with colour, light and the implication of movement in his work. He joined many artists from around the world in Paris in 1960, where members of various international movements of kinetic and light art had congregated and would form the beg
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Panagiotis Vassilakis, known as the artist Takis, was born in Athens in 1925. He received no formal training, but read about and became interested in the sculpture of Picasso and Giacometti whilst in prison for political activism in his teens. He moved to Paris in 1954 to live and work as a sculpt
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Gianni Colombo (1933 - 1993) was an Italian artist, and an early member of the kinetic art movement.
In the 1960s, Colombo attended Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he met Davide Boriani, Gabriele De Vecchi, Giovanni Anceschi and Grazia Varisco. Together they formed the influential collective
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Hugo Demarco (1932 – 1995) was an Argentinian artist, an early exponent of Op Art who worked with kinetic and light art, often animating his moving surfaces through the use of prisms.
He traveled to Paris in 1959 where he made his first kinetic paintings, achieving a unique optical vibration thr
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Grayson Perry is an English artist, particularly noted for his ceramic work and tapestries. The winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, Perry is also a writer and broadcaster of incisive wit and personality, often appearing as transvestite alter-ego Claire.
The pots for which he is, arguably, best know
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Alexander Calder (1898 –1976) was an American sculptor known for his kinetic mobile sculptures.
A third-generation sculptor, and with a mother who was a painter, Calder began making sculptures at the age of 4. Whilst still a child he used scraps of copper wire that he found in the street to make
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David Shrigley is an English artist, best known for his distinctive humour and drawing style in works that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions. His quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts reveal chance utterings such as snippets of over-heard conversations.
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A former student of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and the Académie Julian, Paris, in 1954 Thomas Downing enrolled at Catholic University, Washington, to study under Kenneth Noland. Noland, who became a significant influence on Downing's art, was one of the founders of the Washington Color Field M
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