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Pablo Picasso - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by Primitivism and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably. Neoclassicism , and. Expressionism . Along with. Georges Braque , Picasso is best known for pioneering. Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work,. Tormented Faun’s face.
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Jeff Koons - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Jeff Koons plays with ideas of taste, pleasure, celebrity, and commerce. I believe in advertisement and media completely, he says. My art and my personal life are based in it. Working with seductive commercial materials (such as the high chromium stainless steel of his. So I just follow my interests and focus on them, he says. When you do that, things become very metaphysical. The Banality series that brought him fame in the 1980s included pseudo-.
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Andy Warhol - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production,. Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art he variously mused that art is what you can get away with and everyone will be famous for 15 minutes Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his. 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans. Brillo pad box sculptures. 1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like.
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David Hockney - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. A pioneer of the British. Movement in the early 1960s alongside. David Hockey gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967. In. We Two Boys Clinging Together.
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Damien Hirst - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated “Freeze,” an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the. Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. His groundbreaking works include. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
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Robert Longo - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. An artist should know art history, he says. Shock value only lasts so long. His recent works have included series depicting women in burkas, ocean waves, nuclear explosions, views of Sigmund Freud’s apartment, and zoo animals in cages.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like. In 1983, he met. Who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later. Jean Michel Basquiat courtesy of Artsy).
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Mel Ramos - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Mel Ramos’s provocative, humorous paintings mix idealized nude women with the imagery of popular culture Coca Cola bottles, movie posters, and the like. A prolific artist from his emergence in the 1960s onward, Ramos has often based his nudes on the female celebrities of the day, from. To Scarlett Johansson. His style references the sensuality and glossy flatness of pin-ups and. In his appropriation of imagery from mass media and consumer products, Ramos calls his practice rooted in.
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Takashi Murakami - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. One of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from postwar Asia, Takashi Murakami the. Of Japan is known for his. Open your Hands Wide.
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Julian Opie - Rather Superb
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Gilbert & George. Julian Opie’s distinctive reductive style draws from diverse influences including billboards, classical portraiture and sculpture, dance, Japanese woodblocks, and cartoons. His work comprises silhouettes, animations, LED animations, and simplified portraits and landscapes (such as.
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