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Bacon, Francis: 1909 - 1992
A giant of contemporary art, Francis Bacon described painting as "a method of opening up areas of feeling". His work concentrated on expressing...
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Chadwick, Helen: 1953 - 1996
Helen Chadwick's art "was devoted to splicing the provocative with the profound...to probe the scientific, subjective and spiritual notions of who...
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Freud, Lucian: b1922
Dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism", Freud's aggressively grim depictions of male and female nudes alter the figurative tradition of the sensual...
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Hodgkin, Howard: b1932
Hodgkin's paintings may often appear to be abstract, but he describes himself as "a representational painter of emotional...
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Rego, Paula: b1935
The highly popular contemporary figurative artist, Paula Rego typically depicts sinister adult relationships and fantasies as seen through the...
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Riley, Bridget: b1931
For nearly 40 years Bridget Riley has maintained a rigorously abstract output, from her 1960s black-and-white optical pattern paintings to her...
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Warhol, Andy: 1928 - 1987
"Pope of Pop", Andy Warhol led the Pop Art movement. His mass-produced art mirrored and celebrated the banality of commercial Western culture in the...
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