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J.M.W. Turner

J.M.W. Turner was a British painter, notable for atmospheric seascapes and light effects in works such as The Fighting T...

19TH Century Atmospheric British Landscape

9.4 Excellent

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was a British painter, noted for unsparing portraits and nudes built from thick paint, including Benefits S...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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David Hockney

David Hockney, born in Britain in 1937, became associated with Pop art and California pool scenes, including A Bigger Sp...

Pool Contemporary 20TH Century Pop Art

8.7 Great

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Neo-Expressionist painter, notable for text-filled figures and symbols after his la...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Street Art

8.7 Great

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth was an English painter and printmaker, noted for satirical moral series such as A Harlot's Progress, fir...

18TH Century British Satirical Genre

8.5 Great

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Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an American artist and painter, known for bold line figures that grew from New York subway drawings and...

American Contemporary Pop 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Kara Walker

Kara Walker is an American artist known for black cut-paper silhouettes confronting slavery and race, with a major Tate...

Narrative American Contemporary 21ST Century

8.4 Great

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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall is an American painter whose large-scale works center Black life; his 2016 retrospective Mastry ope...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Figurative

8.3 Great

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Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a Scottish-born painter known for atmospheric landscapes and memory-based images; his 1994 painting Canoe-...

Contemporary Canada 21ST Century Britain

8.2 Great

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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian painter known for pale, understated images drawn from history and media; he helped renew figura...

Contemporary 21ST Century Muted Belgian

7.9 Good

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Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary painter, born in 1962, known for the Superflat movement and anime-derived mo...

Contemporary Pop Japanese 21ST Century

7.9 Good

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Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford is an American painter known for abstract works built from paper and urban materials; he represented the U...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Abstract

7.8 Good

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Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a British painter known for monumental depictions of flesh and bodies; she emerged with the Young Briti...

Contemporary 21ST Century Large Scale British

7.7 Good

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Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown is a British painter based in New York, noted for energetic, semi-abstract figure painting and a 2023 surve...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Figurative

7.6 Good

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Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin was a British painter, born in 1932, known for small, intensely colored abstract works that evoke memorie...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Abstract

7.6 Good

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Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter known for placing Black sitters in Old Master poses, including Barack Obam...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Portrait

7.5 Good

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Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch is a German painter associated with the New Leipzig School, known for enigmatic scenes blending socialist real...

German Contemporary 21ST Century Surrealist

7.5 Good

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Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili is a British painter, born in Manchester in 1968, who won the 1998 Turner Prize for layered works using glit...

Contemporary 21ST Century Britain Mixed Media

7.5 Good

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born painter, born in 1983, known for layered domestic scenes combining painting,...

Contemporary 21ST Century Collage Figurative

7.4 Good

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Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter, born in 1962, known for psychologically charged figurative paintings that mix art...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Female

7.2 Good