Ross Bleckner
(b.1949)
Ross Bleckner is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bleckner
Knights not Nights
1987
oil, beeswax, pigment, and damar crystals on canvas
274,3 x 182,8 cm
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/87.93/
Gerard Richter
(b. 1932)
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.
Richter has been called the "greatest living painter", "the world's most important artist" and the "Picasso of the 21st century".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter
St. John
1988
Oil on canvas
200 cm × 260 cm
Tate collection, London, UK.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-st-john-t05207
St John belongs to a series called the ‘London Paintings’, each named after one of the chapels of Westminster Abbey. The titles are not meant to be descriptive, but refer merely to associations connected with the artist’s visits to London. Since 1980 Richter has made his abstract paintings by manipulating spatulas of different lengths, loaded with paint, across areas of the canvas. New layers of colour cover earlier ones. Richter’s inability to control the precise distribution of paint allows a degree of chance to determine the paintings’ final appearance.
David Salle
(b. 1952)
David Salle is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, where he studied with John Baldessari. Salle’s work first came to public attention in New York City in the early 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salle
Mingus in Mexico
1990
oil and acrylic on canvas
241.5 x 311cm
Private collection
Sold by Christie’s London, 6 OCT 2017
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6100695
Gordon Bennett
(1955 - 2014)
Gordon Bennett was an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent. Born in Monto, Queensland, Bennett was a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_(artist)
Myth of the Western man (White man's burden)
1992
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
175 x 304 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/390.1993/
Brice Marden
(1938 - 2023)
Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. was an American artist generally described as minimalist, although his work has roots in abstract expressionism, color field painting. and lyrical abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brice_Marden
The Muses 1991 - 1993
About 1875
Oil on linen
274,3 x 457,2 cm
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
https://www.daros.ch/brice-marden.html
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
(1910 - 1996)
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. After only starting painting as a septuagenarian, Kngwarreye became one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Indigenous Australian art. She was a founding member of the Utopia Women's Batik Group and is known for her precise and detailed works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Kame_Kngwarreye
Untitled (Awely)
1994
synthetic polymer paint on paper laminated to canvas
100 x 213 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/567.1994.a-c/
Ofelia Rodríguez
(1946 - 2023)
Ofelia Rodríguez was born in Barranquilla, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, she is known for her use of mass-produced objects and mythical imagery in her works as she explored childhood memories and imaginary realities. In her brightly coloured paintings, prints and sculptures, she has offered critical reflections on gender and cultural identity, presented through dark humour and irony.
https://artreview.netlify.app/ofelia-rodriguez-columbian-artist-who-explored-memories-and-mythical-symbols-1946-2023/
Prestándole un oido al pasado (Lending an Ear to the Past )
1994
Mixed media on canvas
170 x 210 cm
University of Essex collection of Latin American Art, UK.
https://search.escala.org.uk/object-65-1996
Fernando De Szyszlo
(1925 - 2017)
Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_de_Szyszlo
habitacion no 23
1994
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm
University of Essex collection of Latin American Art, UK.
https://search.escala.org.uk/object-11-1995
Mark Wallinger
(b. 1959)
Mark Wallinger is an English artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Labyrinth (2013), a permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work Writ in Water was realized for the National Trust to celebrate where Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wallinger
This is one of four paintings depicting hybrid racehorses which Wallinger made in 1994-5. The paintings are all titled Half Brother with individual subtitles, made up of the names of the two horses from which the halves are taken, in parentheses to distinguish them and share a similar structure. Each consists of two abutting canvases bringing together the two halves of the horse. The horses are painted realistically in thin oil against a white ground. Wallinger derived the horses from photographs in the Jockey Club’s official record of thoroughbred stallions. He projected the photographs onto the large canvases and copied them. In each painting, the horse’s forequarters appear on the left panel and its hindquarters on the right. The bodies’ outlines connect only approximately at the point where the canvases join. Different colouring and variation in build between the horses’ halves result in incongruous blends. In Half Brother (Exit to Nowhere – Machiavellian) the horse’s head and shoulders are an ochre-brown, turning to black on its forelegs. The rear half of its body is a uniform rich, glossy black, broken only by a narrow white band above its left hoof. The painting’s title reflects on the significance of pedigree in horse breeding while the subtitle directs the work towards a particular reading.
Ian Davenport
(b. 1966)
Ian Davenport is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.
Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup. He studied art at Northwich College of Art and Design, in Cheshire, and then at Goldsmiths College, from where he graduated in 1988. The same year he exhibited in the Freeze exhibition at Surrey Docks organised by Damien Hirst. In 1990 Davenport's first solo show was held at Waddington Galleries and he was included in the British Art Show. In 1991, he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize. In 1999, he had a solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts and was a prizewinner at the John Moores exhibition 21 in Liverpool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Davenport_(artist)
Poured Lines: Light Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Red
1995
Household paint on canvas
213 x 213 cm
British High Commission, Singapore
https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/17313/
Fiona Rae
(b. 1963)
Fiona Rae RA is a Hong Kong-born British artist. She is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the 1990s. Throughout her career, she has been known for having a portfolio of work that includes elements of energy, and complexity. Her work is known for aiming at expanding the modern traditions of painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Rae
Untitled (emergency room)
1996
Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas
213 x 198 cm
Tate, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rae-untitled-emergency-room-t07462
Sigmar Polke
(1941 - 2010)
Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer.
Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmar_Polke
Break Domination
1998
Pigment, artificial resin, wire-mesh fabric on polyester fabric
130.18 x 149.86 cm
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/19994-break-domination
Luc Tuymans
(b. 1958)
Luc Tuymans is a Belgian visual artist best known for his paintings which explore people's relationship with history and confront their ability to ignore it. World War II is a recurring theme in his work. He is a key figure of the generation of European figurative painters who gained renown at a time when many believed the medium had lost its relevance due to the new digital age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Tuymans
Within
2001
oil on canvas
223 x 243 cm
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/luc_tuymans
Peter Doig
(b. 1959)
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He has settled in Trinidad since 2002.
In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doig
100 years ago
2001
Oil on canvas
229 x 359 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/c4j7ex
A photograph of the prison-island of Carrera, off Trinidad serves to evoke the symbolist metaphysics of Arnold Böcklin's Island of the Dead (1880-1886). Doig transposes in the same way the sleeve illustration of an album by The AlIman Brothers Band, an American rock band of the 1970s; in a melancholy world close to Edvard Munch's, he isolates the figure of bassist Berry Oakley in a huge canoe, whose reflection shudders like flame on the water.
Neo Rauch
(b. 1960)
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Rauch
Gold
2003
Oil on canvas
250 × 210 cm
Private collection
Will Cotton
(b. 1965)
Will Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Cotton
Ice Cream Cavern
2003
Oil on linen
178 x 203 cm
The Seavest Collection
https://www.seavestcollection.org/artist/Will_Cotton/works/240
Vincent Desiderio
(b. 1955)
Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Desiderio
http://www.vincent-desiderio.com/
Cockaigne
1993 - 2003
oil on canvas
284.8 x 389.6 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
https://www.si.edu/object/cockaigne:hmsg_04.19
In Vincent Desiderio's ambitious new painting, "Cockaigne," six centuries of Western art lie scattered on the floor like the remains of a really great party. A virtuoso representational painter known for his large-scale, postmodernist allegories, Mr. Desiderio worked on the 13-by-9-foot "Cockaigne" on and off for 10 years. On the pages of the books in the painting, he painstakingly reproduced miniature versions of his favorite works by artists ranging from Masaccio, Vermeer and van Eyck to Matisse, Jasper Johns and Chuck Close.
The title is a reference to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Land of Cockaigne" (1559), a moral allegory set in a land of plenty where the houses are tiled with cakes, the fences are made of sausages and the fowl fly roasted and ready to eat.
From an article By MIA FINEMAN
Elizabeth Peyton
(b. 1965)
Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of contemporary culture, Peyton's portraits have regularly featured artists, writers, musicians, and actors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peyton
Keith (From Gimme Shelter)
2004
Oil on board
25.4 x 30.5 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum N.Y.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/14581
Amy Silman
(b. 1955)
Amy Sillman is a New York-based visual artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation. Her work draws upon art historical tropes, particularly postwar American gestural painting, as both influences and foils; she engages feminist critiques of the discourses of mastery, genius and power in order to introduce qualities such as humor, awkwardness, self-deprecation, affect and doubt into her practice. Profiles in The New York Times, ARTnews, Frieze, and Interview, characterize Sillman as championing "the relevance of painting" and "a reinvigorated mode of abstraction reclaiming the potency of active brushwork and visible gestures."Critic Phyllis Tuchman described Sillman as "an inventive abstractionist" whose "messy, multivalent, lively" art "reframes long-held notions regarding the look and emotional character of abstraction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Sillman
Ich Auch
2009
Oil on canvas
230 x 215 cm
The Saatchi Gallery
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/amy_sillman
Stephen Farthing
(b. 1950)
Stephen Farthing RA is an English painter and writer of art history.
Farthing described his work in a 2005 interview, saying "I have dined with the devil in terms of becoming a modern artist. I have taken hold of history, tried to understand it—and then used and abused it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Farthing
Mrs G's Chair
1982
encaustic on canvas
165 x 269 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
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