Known for his colorful “puddle” paintings, Ian Davenport has gone to great lengths in the name of experimentation, once even using an industrial wind machine to blow paint onto a canvas. In his recent works, …
artists Conceptual Art Impressionist and Modern Art Pop Art Post-War & Contemporary Art Young British Artists
Michael Craig-Martin
Conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin—who taught Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, and others at London’s Goldsmiths College in the 1970s—is often called the godfather of the Young British Artists. His early work referenced Minimalism and Dada’s depiction …
artists Conceptual Art Impressionist and Modern Art Pop Art Post-War & Contemporary Art Young British Artists
Patrick Caulfield
In his hard-edged, color-blocked prints and paintings of innocuous interior scenes and domestic objects such as pots, Patrick Caulfield created a sense of the exotic from the ordinary. Caulfield emerged in the 1960s amid the …
TRACEY EMIN
A prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Emin works in a wide range of mediums, including film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, installation, and sculpture. Her work is intensely personal, revealing intimate details of …
DAMIEN HIRST
There is no other contemporary artist as maverick to the art market as Damien Hirst. Foremost among the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group of provocative artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in …