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Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 - Tate
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most …
Five Things to Know: Keith Haring - Tate
Haring was arrested on a number of occasions for vandalism. More than once, I’ve been taken to a station handcuffed by a cop who realized, much to his dismay, that the other cops in the …
The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe - Tate
Robert Mapplethorpe took many photographs of Patti Smith. He photographed her for the cover of her 1973 volume of poetry, Witt, and her album Horses in 1975. Horses went on to achieve …
Abstract art - Tate
Cossacks (1910–1) Tate. Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else. The term can be applied to art that is based on an object, …
Dada - Tate
Dada artists felt the war called into question every aspect of a society capable of starting and then prolonging it – including its art. Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create …
Modernism - Tate
Modernism. Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of …
The Story of Ophelia - Tate
Ophelia is one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite works in the Tate collection. The painting was part of the original Henry Tate Gift in 1894. Millais’s image of the tragic death of Ophelia, as …
Pop art - Tate
In the United States, pop style was a return to representational art (art that depicted the visual world in a recognisable way) and the use of hard edges and distinct forms after the painterly …
Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968 - Tate
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with …