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Regarded as the greatest female sculptor of her generation, Barbara Hepworth received international recognition at an early stage and was a prominent member of the St. Ives School of artists.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, where the Hepworth Wakefield gallery now curates her legacy, Barbara Hepwo
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure of the new movement. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic strip. He was represented to great acclaim by the influential dealer
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Chris Levine is a Canadian artist, living and working in the UK, primarily in the field of light art.
Levine is best known for Lightness of Being, his unconventional portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed. Levine explained that the portrait came about as a "happy accident". He was c
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Born in Matsumoto, Japan in 1929, Yayoi Kusama began her artistic education at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts. There she studied Nihonga, a style of formal, traditional Japanese painting that emerged in the Meiji period (1868–1912). Following six solo exhibitions in Japan during her early car
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Alex Katz is an American artist who, born in 1927 in New York, became active at exactly the same time as the rise to prominence of the Abstract Expressionist movement. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and steadfastly refused to align
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John Baldessari (1931-2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California.
Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mi
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Freud's work Landscape of 1993 is one of only two small-scale etchings of plants in his garden made by the artist, the other being Thistle of 1985. Both serve as precursors for the huge and ambitious works Garden in Winter of 1997-9 and The Painter's Garden of 2003-4.
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Executed in 1985, Blond Girl is an exceptionally important etching in Freud's canon as it is his first large-scale nude, printed on a paper size of almost one metre. The work announces Freud's arrival as a fully confident and ambitious etcher, after a long break from working in the medium. The wor
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Two Men In The Studio of 1989 also relates to a painting* of the same name, and perfectly illustrates the complex relationship between the two media. In the painting, this time finished first, another painting in progress Standing By The Rags (now in the Tate Gallery) is visible leaning against th
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As an artist, Freud was constantly driven to discomfort himself whenever he suspected that he was falling into a routine or worse, exhibiting sentimentality. In an effort to widen the boundaries of his subject matter he sought out new models, the more unconventional the better. In 1988 Freud was a
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As an artist, Freud was constantly driven to discomfort himself whenever he suspected that he was falling into a routine or worse, exhibiting sentimentality. In an effort to widen the boundaries of his subject matter he sought out new models, the more unconventional the better. In 1988 Freud was a
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Closely related to Riley's screenprint Start of 2000, Fold is a tightly arranged grouping of only four colours in the cascading leaf format that has preoccupied the artist since the 1990s. One of the smallest of her colour screenprints, Fold has a calm rhythm which engages the viewer and presents
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The still lives which Scott chose to depict, and which are instantly recognisable, were arrangements of pots and pans, eggs, pears, bottles and fish on a tabletop. Although his initial inspirations for this genre may have included admiration for the work of French painters such as Chardin and Braq
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Scott made two prints of similar subjects in 1955 although, for reasons which are not apparent, this blue version of Three Pears and Pan was never published. According to the artist's son, Robert Scott, it is possible that the work was intended to be included as a lithographic insert in a book whi
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The evocation of memories and experiences of a place became a significant leitmotif in Scott’s oeuvre, especially in his resonating abstracts. In 1960 Scott met Stanley Jones, the master printer of London’s Curwen Studio, who was to take Scott’s printmaking in rewarding new directions. Jones showe
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In 1946 Pablo Picasso adopted an injured owl, which he named Ubu. ‘We put him in the kitchen with the canaries, the pigeons and the turtle doves,’ wrote the artist’s lover, Françoise Gilot. ‘He smelled awful.’ The artist frequently depicted owls in his art.
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This work is closely related to Dark Landscape of 1944-45 in the collection of the Tate Gallery
In a letter, referred to on the Tate Gallery's catalogue entry for Dark Landscape, postmarked 26 April 1986, Craxton wrote: Preparatory drawings for ‘Dark Landscape’ as far as I know don't exist. The
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In the early 70s, many of Dyson's studied drawings clearly show the influence of David Hockney. This is especially so in this portrait of Sarah seated of 1972. Hockney's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Mrs Laura Hockney, Bradford of the same year, in the Tate Gallery, shows how much Dyson was imp
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In this drawing by Julian Dyson of Sarah Asleep, from 1972, the artist's line displays the influence of both David Hockney and Lucian Freud. The early 1970s was a period of somewhat formal self-training for Dyson, in which the artist expressed his admiration for the artists that inspired him, and
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Dyson's 1972 work Sarah With a Cold is a rare coloured drawing which is very much of its time, displaying penwork much influenced by David Hockney, and a subject matter that recalls Lucian Freud's Ill in Paris.
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In the early 70s, many of Dyson's studied drawings clearly show the influence of David Hockney. This is especially so in this portrait of Sarah seated of 1972. Hockney's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Mrs Laura Hockney, Bradford of the same year, in the Tate Gallery, shows how much Dyson was imp
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Some of Dyson's drawings of the early 1970s follow the Kitchen Sink idea of social realism, which had first appeared in painting in John Bratby's works of 1954 and had become fashionable in stage and television drama, particularly in the mid-1960s. Ordinary scenes, tightly observed, are presented
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Since 1968, Hamilton has offered artist friends a polaroid camera and asked them to take a picture of him. There are 128 of these polaroid prints, and the artists whom Hamilton met and who became involved in this ongoing project form a directory of the greatest of the last half of the 20th Century
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Bella in her Pluto T-Shirt is the fourth etching that Freud had made depicting his fashion designer daughter, and it is by some margin the largest. The work was slowly created over several months, and required many sittings. Freud may have demanded much of his sitters, but equally much of those wh
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The trust built up between Freud and his printer, Marc Balakjian, brought with it a new-found sense of adventure, which can be seen in a rather extreme way in the 1999 work Head of Ali. The etching plate was left in the boot of Freud’s car for weeks on end, acquiring many scratches and marks from
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By the end of the 20th Century Freud, of course, belonged to a small and privileged group of artists and academics who had earned standing permission to visit the National Gallery at any time of the day or night of their choosing. He took full advantage of this opportunity, painting a version of C
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By the end of the 20th Century Freud, of course, belonged to a small and privileged group of artists and academics who had earned standing permission to visit the National Gallery at any time of the day or night of their choosing. He took full advantage of this opportunity, painting a version of C
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Shortly after Freud's homage to Chardin was complete, which had involved months of sitting in a grand, but windowless, hall of the National Gallery at night, the artist, in predictable fashion, decided to spend months gazing into the daylight and duly returned to paint his garden. He embarked upon
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Head and Shoulders of 1982 was Freud’s first etched portrait since 1947 of any considerable size, much bigger than its immediate forerunners which were either fragments, or small in scale due to their creation as inserts for Lawrence Gowing’s book. The work is particularly notable, aside from its
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The uncompromising pose and flamboyant presentation of the male nude in Naked Man on a Bed may shock upon first viewing but, on closer examination, in particular of the tender, almost doting, rendering of the face, we see almost as much of the human exchange between the artist and his subject as w
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This painting of 2007 by Plogsties depicts a run of mooring pontoons, deeply abstracted by the artists development of the picture surface into a colourfully layered ideal, reminiscent of recent works by Gerhard Richter. Plogsties' clever use of shallow perspective, with no other visual reference p
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Man's Best Friend is a series of designer pet skulls by the artist which, in the artist's words 'illustrate man’s hand in the design and creation of his environment and its inhabitants. They showcase the extreme of mankind’s modification of animals through breeding - our closest companions who cou
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Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, Gander's work Mostly English; not too English is an stand-alone excerpt from his, as then unfinished, conceptual novel. It is a screenprinted multiple on two found paperback end-papers. Gander's story works are discussed in Friez
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Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, Auad's gold necklace text-work Piranha is a witty swipe at the decorated girls of the Brazilian social scene, inspired by messages of love, family and friendship often found on cheap jewellery. Piranha is a slang term meaning a v
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This painting is typical of Millares' working style in the early 1960s (see Tate Modern: Manolo Millares, Painting 150). At this time Millares was deeply involved in making dramatic collages from found materials, especially burlap.
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Tunick's work challenges traditionally held views on nudity and privacy as well as social and political issues surrounding art in public. This image was shot on the Williamsburg Brooklyn waterfront in New York in 1999. The beautiful landscape of strewn, layered bodies lying on the edge of the East
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Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, Liz Neal's embroidered multiple Miasma is a decorative roundel of a lesbian circle jerk. The circular canvas, hand cut by the artist, features a complex embroidery in fifteen colours recalling antique Indian and Japanese printed
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Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, My Dear is Nogah Engler's first work in a printed medium. This work concisely conveys the artist's early concerns: 'The world she depicts seems poised in a state of precarious balance, evincing the natural cycle of life and decay
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Doug Fishbone’s first major geopolitical project took the unusual form of a mound of bananas, up to 40,000 of them, which, since 1999, he has installed in a number of politically resonant locations: Plaza of the Central Bank of Ecuador in Cuenca; Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, the site of Europe’s
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In Untitled (Kaori, 2004), Araki's lover, dressed in a patterned kimono reminiscent of a Hokusai print, reveals herself to her paramour - simultaneously inviting and other-worldly. This c-print was published to accompany the deluxe edition of the book Self, Life and Death, and is presented in a sp
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Untitled (1997) is from Araki's exceptional Kinbaku series, illustrating the highly skilled art of erotic restraint, which first came to notice in Japan in the late Edo period and flourished into a recognised art form in the early twentieth century. Precisely executed, the intricate knots and spec
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Babin's constant games with and references to the work of On Kawara's famous Today series reach something of a new height in this work of 2007 titled The Day After. The date depicted on the painting 16 AOUT 2007, and the painting's formal title, both refer to the day after the closing date of the
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Originally created for the Zoo Latin American Portfolio 2006, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and published by Archeus.
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'Thomas Grünfeld’s anomalous creations are some of the strangest and most surreal of contemporary taxidermy. The creatures from his appropriately titled Misfit series are composed of bits and pieces of animals, all flawlessly sewn together to create entirely new species. The Misfits are reminiscen
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Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, James Ireland's box-set multiple invites the owner to create their own individual idealised landscape from the items provided.
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Sandra Cinto feels a connection to the act of drawing, but does not limit herself to a single medium or to two-dimensional surfaces. Often using existing architecture as a kind of canvas from which her narratives emerge, she creates worlds that merge myth, dream, and reality. Her menagerie of imag
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On his Bridge pictures, Cockrill states:
'The origination for much of my recent work is rooted partially in a kind of fascination for the nature of water, which began formally, most probably in the 'water' drawings and paintings for my 'Elements' series of 1998. An ongoing sub-theme is a vis
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Akira Ikezoe's paintings are often populated with wingless angels, their wings are sometimes depicted hanging from the treetops just out of the angels' reach, or removed from the picture altogether by hunters.
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The early work by Holstein depicts an old family photograph and some personal possessions, subject matter which interested the artist greatly throughout her studies under Prof. Arno Rink and Prof. Neo Rauch.
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The title of the work comes from the well-known German text 'Harzreise' by Heinrich Heine, in which the writer records his experiences of travelling through the Harz mountains in poetry and prose.
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