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Hilma af Klint was painting pure abstraction years before Kandinsky or Mondrian. Discover the Swedish visionary whose monumental hidden works changed the history of modern art.
David Salle layered incompatible images on the same canvas and called it painting. Discover how the American Neo-Expressionist became the defining figure of postmodern figurative art.
Jenny Saville paints the human body at a scale that makes it impossible to look away. Discover how the British painter became one of the most important figurative artists of the 21st century.
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