A-Level: Contemporary figurative work

Kruger’s art is characterized by a visual wit sharpened in the trenches of the advertising world.

Freud’s nude isn’t the idealized, horizontal beauty of previous centuries, but a forthright, vertical one.

Coping with the death of his lover, Bacon paints figures who decompose and fuse together in front of our eyes.

Cheap fabric with a garish print becomes an eerie specter of surveillance thanks to some creative chemistry.

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