Blurring the boundaries between abstract and figurative art, Jonas Wood has established his reputation as an artist who records contemporary American life whilst engaging with a myriad of artistic traditions and movements. He has been […]

Edward Ruscha established his reputation in the late 1950s and early ‘60s with his unique, bold works that combined images and text to great effect, and which were strongly influenced by commercial advertising. Embodying many […]

Since the early 1960s, American artist Edward Ruscha has been viewed as one of the most influential pioneers of Pop Art, and as a key artist in the revolutionary movement. Known for his bold, deadpan […]

Often hailed as an artistic genius, Pablo Picasso has good claim to be the most important and dominant artist of the 20th century, and his impact cannot be denied. Picasso was incredibly prolific, and his […]

Pablo Picasso achieved immense success during his lifetime with his daring, innovative, and technically brilliant artwork. Known for co-founding the Cubist movement, Picasso also made major contributions to several other artistic movements and pioneered a […]

Grayson Perry is an English artist best-known for his ceramics and tapestries, as well as for his flamboyant cross-dressing. Perry tends to work with traditional mediums to uncompromisingly explore contemporary social issues and difficult themes, […]

Grayson Perry is known almost as much for his eccentric and unapologetic personality as he is for his artwork. Though initially a controversial figure in the art world, in recent decades, Perry has secured his […]

Known primarily as an abstract pioneer in post-World War II Britain, Victor Pasmore constantly reworked his daring, experimental style, shifting between figurative and abstract art, and never failing to try new things. Born in Surrey […]

The most noticeable aspect of Victor Pasmore’s work is perhaps its sheer scope and variety. The British artist is best known as a pioneer of abstract art in post-World War II Britain, but he was […]

Julian Opie is a British artist most famous for his stylised, minimalistic portraits which draw on many elements of Pop Art. His highly distinctive work is instantly recognisable, and though his repertoire is in some […]

British artist Julian Opie was born in 1958 and graduated from Goldsmiths in 1982. Since then, he has focused on honing his highly distinctive minimalistic style, and he has successfully established his reputation as one […]

Ben Nicholson is widely recognised as one of the leading British artists of his generation. His Abstract paintings, prints, and reliefs gained him significant success during his lifetime, and his influence can still be felt […]

During his long career, Ben Nicholson established his reputation as one of the most important British Abstract artists of the 20th century, and his contribution to Modernist art is still widely hailed to this day. […]

American artist Keith Haring rose to prominence in 1980s New York with the spontaneous, stylised chalk images he drew on the city’s subways. From this, Haring’s rise to fame was spectacularly fast, though his career […]

Keith Haring was born in 1958 and rose to prominence in New York in the 1980s. Though he died from AIDS-related complications when he was just 31, during his brief career, Haring achieved significant success […]

George Condo’s style is so unique, the American artist has had to coin his own term to describe it: “artificial realism”. Created from a distinctive mixture of various different influences – from Old Masters to […]

A huge array of different styles and influences converge and collide in George Condo’s work, emerging as a new and distinctive style unique to the American artist, which he has labelled “artificial realism”. Condo made […]

Gillian Ayres was a single-minded, spirited British artist whose life and career were driven by fierce determination and passion for her work. Ayres’ vast abstract canvases are an explosion of colour and joie de vivre, […]

British artist Gillian Ayres lived and worked in a riot of colour and energy. Her devotion to abstract painting propelled her to create some of the most dazzling works the movement has ever seen, and […]

Alongside creating much work of his own, German-born artist Josef Albers was a respected art educator and colour theorist, and a prominent member of the Weimar Bauhaus. His emigration to America led to the dissemination […]