Among the young artists whom he wowed with his tales and teachings were the American Midwesterner David Smith, the Armenian refugee Arshile Gorky, and, in the 1930s, the very young Jackson Pollock, then a disciple of the regionalist Thomas Hart Benton.
Not exact matches
Wolfgang Tillmans and Gary Hume (
whom you might think similar to Opie because they celebrate beautiful contemporary people) depict real icons and stars
among the
young clubbers and
artists; the lustre of a Kate Moss has a destabilising effect and is anything but reassuring to the viewer.
Among the British
artists represented in the exhibition will be William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) and Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92), both of
whom betray a heavy debt to Rembrandt, seen here in works such as Reynolds's Self - Portrait when
Young (1753 - 8).
This cheekiness towards current modern imagery, obtained through the insert of different domestic objects, techniques originating from cartoons or street art, is a trend
among the international
young generation of
artists of different exotic origins,
whom you can see in Paris or New York.