Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (USA) Title: Whaam! Year: 1963 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Whaam! 1963 is a large, two-canvas painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that takes its composition from a comic book strip. The left-hand canvas features an American fighter […]
Artist: Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Title: Still Life Year: 1946 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Still Life is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Giorgio MorandiIn this work, Morandi uses a muted colour palette that ranges from light and medium grey […]
Artist: André Fougeron (France) Title: Atlantic Civilisation Year: 1953 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Atlantic Civilisation is Fougeron’s key work of social criticism and an extraordinary example of Cold War rhetoric. Fougeron caricatures the Americanisation of Europe, then a major target of Communist […]
Artist: Carol Rama (Italy) Title: Fase del Nero (Black Phase) Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Fase del Nero (Black Phase) 1974 is a work on black fabric made by the Italian artist Carol Rama using several rubber inner tubes that have […]
Artist: Michael Buthe (Germany) Title: White Painting Year: 1969 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “It might look like the artist has randomly slashed this canvas. In fact, Buthe carefully composed it. He wanted to create a powerful relationship between the grid of the […]
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Cage (1) – (6) Year: 2006 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cage (1) – (6) 2006 is a group of six large, square abstract paintings by the German artist Gerhard Richter. Three of the canvases measure 2900 x […]
Artist: Christian Schad (Germany) Title: Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (left, 1929) | Self-Portrait (right, 1927) Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove 1929 is a large portrait-orientated oil painting of two […]
Artist: Bram Bogart (Belgium) Title: White Plane White Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “White Plane White 1974 is a large monochrome white painting by Bram Bogart in which a thick layer of paint has been applied to the surface of the support and […]
Artist: Louise Bonnet (Switzerland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Bonnet began her creative career working in illustration and graphic design. She shifted into the realm of painting in 2008, making acrylic paintings of people such as Yoko Ono or characters from […]
Artist: Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The visual references in Firelei Báez paintings, drawings, and installations range from mythology and science fiction to histories of the African diaspora. By re-examining ancient folk tales, Báez reflects on the theme […]
Artist: Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrea-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “At once pensive and exuberant, Ficre Ghebreyesus’ paintings capture the complexity of his East African childhood and life in diaspora, presenting fantastical landscapes drawn from longing for a time and place interrupted by […]
Artist: Charline von Heyl (Germany) Year: 2020/2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Working in the vibrant Cologne art world of the 1980s only led painter Charline von Heyl to more firmly believe in the importance of her chosen medium: painting. The eight […]
Artist: Miriam Cahn (Switzerland) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “From the 1970s to the mid-1990s, Miriam Cahn shunned painting as an act of feminist resistance against the Western art world’s male, Abstract and Minimalist Zeitgeist. Painting had passed its art […]
Artist: Merikokeb Berhanu (Ethiopia) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Brimming with abstract forms, at the blink of an eye Merikokeb Berhanu’s canvases become recognisable cosmologies and topographies, bearing with them evocations of nature and its universal rhythms. Berhanu’s series Cellular […]
Artist: Jana Euler (Germany) Year: 2019–2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jana Euler’s work bounds between stylistic conceits, trafficking in grotesque, monstrous, contorted, eroticised, and frequently off-putting representations of figures, both human and not. Aping the jokey, anarchist attitude, surrealist fixations, and […]
Artist: Felipe Baeza (Mexico) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “These lines title a large-scale painting by Felipe Baeza, who combines collage, mixed media, egg tempera, and printmaking to make heavily textured two- dimensional works. Dreams of other planets, of another life arise […]
Artist: Albert York (USA) Title: Woman and Skeleton Year: c. 1967 USEFUL LINKS: Albert York in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Kleine Sekretärin Year: 1965 Technical details: Oil on canvas, 47 cm x 36 cm USEFUL LINKS: Gerhard Richter in this blog | Website | Wikipedia
Artist: Cudelice Brazelton (USA/Germany) Title: Undergird Year: 2019 “Undergird (2019) is a circular collage-painting on a black and white inkjet printing, presenting a close-up of Brazelton’s own skin. The piece is particularly marked by the way the surface has been worked over. What does it mean when an […]
Artist: Grace Weaver (USA) Title: Misstep Year: 2020 USEFUL LINKS: Grace Weaver in this blog | Galerie Max Hetzler | Instagram
Artist: Paulina Olowska (Poland) Title: Prospekt Niezalezhnosti Year: 2018 USEFUL LINKS: Paulina Olowska in this blog | Simon Lee Gallery | Wikipedia | Instagram
Artist: Richard Ahnert (Belgium) Title: Guider Year: 2022 Technical details: oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches © Richard Ahnert, courtesy of Modern Eden Gallery USEFUL LINKS: Richard Ahnert in this blog | Wikipedia | Instagram
Artist: Michaël Borremans (Belgium) Title: Mercy Year: 2016 USEFUL LINKS: Michaël Borremans in this blog | Wikipedia | Instagram
Artist: Elad Lassry (Israel/USA) Title: Untitled (fish) Year: 2014 USEFUL LINKS: Elad Lassry in this blog | White Cube Gallery | Wikipedia
Artist: Cannon Dill (USA) Title: Stray Dogs Year: 2019 USEFUL LINKS: Cannon Dill in this blog | Pt. 2 Gallery | Instagram
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