New York, Connecticut. Born 1970
Contemporary realism-figure and genre painting
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Born 1974 Kashmir, India. Known for: Visionary, violent image painting and sculpture.
Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its... Read full biography
Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its imagery. Inspired by Hieronymous Bosch''s fifteenth century visionary triptych, Shaw''s series of works... Read full biography
Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its imagery. Inspired by Hieronymous Bosch''s fifteenth century visionary triptych, Shaw''s series of works similarly titled 'Garden of Earthly Delights' celebrate a society free of any moral restraint. Populated with a wealth of hybrid creatures, Shaw portrays a dizzying scene of erotic hedonism, both... Read full biography
Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its imagery. Inspired by Hieronymous Bosch''s fifteenth century visionary triptych, Shaw''s series of works similarly titled 'Garden of Earthly Delights' celebrate a society free of any moral restraint. Populated with a wealth of hybrid creatures, Shaw portrays a dizzying scene of erotic hedonism, both explosive and gruesome in its debauchery. Fusing an array of vibrantly painted flora and fauna, Shaw creates an eco-system inhabited by figures such as phallus-headed birds, bug-eyed butterfly catchers, reptilian warriors or monkeys holding parasols,... Read full biography
Raqib Shaw''s gloriously opulent paintings suggest a fantastical world full of intricate detail, rich colour, and jewel-like surfaces, all masking the intense violent and sexual nature of its imagery. Inspired by Hieronymous Bosch''s fifteenth century visionary triptych, Shaw''s series of works similarly titled 'Garden of Earthly Delights' celebrate a society free of any moral restraint. Populated with a wealth of hybrid creatures, Shaw portrays a dizzying scene of erotic hedonism, both explosive and gruesome in its debauchery. Fusing an array of vibrantly painted flora and fauna, Shaw creates an eco-system inhabited by figures such as phallus-headed birds, bug-eyed butterfly catchers, reptilian warriors or monkeys holding parasols, anthropomorphic in their gestures and regalia. Shaw's unique technique, where pools of enamel and metallic industrial paints are manipulated to the de... Read full biography
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Arrival of the Horse King from the series Paradise Lost, 2011-2012
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Absence of God II (diptych-2)
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United Kingdom, Scotland. Born 1964
Painting and sculpture
Italy. 1901 - 1986
Constructions, wire sculpture, abstraction
New York / England, Colombia. Born 1986
Large scale non objective mixed media, performance art
Japan. 1928 - 2013
Painting and sculpture
Brazil. Born 1964
Large scale Olympic game mural, racism and colonialism themes
New York / Netherlands, South Africa. Born 1953
Abject figurative and portrait painting and drawing-narrative
New York / Egypt. Born 1963
Female eroticism, symbolic hand embroidered canvases
England. Born 1950
Large-scale figurative sculpture, installation
New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
Germany. Born 1970
Sculpture and painting
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
Italy. 1930 - 2004
Optical illusion painting and sculpture, Dada
England, United Kingdom. Born 1970
Human form painting and drawing, nudes, classical and abstraction
Trinidad and Tobago, England. Born 1968
Mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
United Kingdom, Lebanon. Born 1952
Performance art-body focus, assemblage
Belarus, France, Russian Federation. 1900/1906 - 1969
Abstract painting
Germany. 1941 - 2010
Pop art painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography
Italy. 1933 - 1963
Conceptual painting and sculpture
New York / Brazil. Born 1960
Decorative collage, geometric design
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
England, United Kingdom, Italy. Born 1943/1942
Collaborative geometric-grid symbolic painting
New York / Italy. Born 1956
Conceptual art, mixed media non-objective painting
France, Germany. 1904 - 1989
Painter-abstraction
Germany, France. 1913 - 1951
Abstract painting, portrait photography, graphic arts
China. Born 1964
Expressionist painting, mistreated hospital patients, lower class themes
New York / Italy. Born 1952
Mod figure, abstraction, graphics
New York / Japan. 1933 - 2014
Installation sculpture, abstraction, conceptual art
New York. Born 1933
Minimalism, conceptualism, installation sculpture
Spain. 1924 - 2002
Mod sculpture, abstract works on paper-collage
New York / Poland. Born 1968
Politically charged fantasy portraits, sculpture and films