The A-Z of Art: The World's Greatest and Most Popular Artists and Their WorksA comprehensive guide to 386 of the world's best-known artists, from medieval times to the present day. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist, each spread contains a full-colour illustration of one of each artist's most interesting works, accompanied by biographical details and statistics. |
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Page 25
... produced the painting with which he declared his career as an artist began . The painting , a triptych , Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion , provided a format and subject that was to recur in Bacon's oeuvre , as ...
... produced the painting with which he declared his career as an artist began . The painting , a triptych , Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion , provided a format and subject that was to recur in Bacon's oeuvre , as ...
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... produced her best - known work in the 1980s . Primarily working on paper , using black chalk , Cahn relied on her physicality and intuition to create her drawings from the chalk dust . In describing the process that produced her work ...
... produced her best - known work in the 1980s . Primarily working on paper , using black chalk , Cahn relied on her physicality and intuition to create her drawings from the chalk dust . In describing the process that produced her work ...
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... produced a series of blurred , indistinct paintings based on photographic images from newspapers and magazines . Always concerned with the narrow distinction between photography and painting , Richter's work constantly operates on the ...
... produced a series of blurred , indistinct paintings based on photographic images from newspapers and magazines . Always concerned with the narrow distinction between photography and painting , Richter's work constantly operates on the ...
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The A-Z of Art: The World's Greatest and Most Popular Artists and Their Works Nicola Hodge,Libby Anson No preview available - 1996 |
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