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1968
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Appropriation Art
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Conceptual Art
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Arte Povera
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Self-Portrait
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Black Power
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Classic In The Contemporary
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Hip-Hop
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Immersive
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Minimal Art
Mono-Ha
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Nature
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Numbers
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Shadow
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Performance
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Suffering
Skull
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Video Art


Elmgreen&dragset
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Adel Abdessemed
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Shusaku Arakawa
B
Marcel Bascoulard
Alighiero & Boetti
Troy Brauntuch
Marcel Broodthaers
James Lee Byars
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Maurizio Cattelan
David Claerbout
Bruce Conner
John Coplans
D
Peter Fischli David Weiss
Peter Dreher
Marlene Dumas
E
Latifa Echakhch
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Urs Fischer
Dan Flavin
Llyn Foulkes
Latoya Ruby Frazier
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Vidya Gastaldon
Theaster Gates
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Gilbert & George
Robert Gober
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Loris Gréaud
Mark Grotjahn
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David Hammons
Damien Hirst
Roni Horn
Pierre Huyghe
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Robert Irwin
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Jeff Koons
Kurt Kranz
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Bertrand Lavier
Julio Leparc
Sherrie Levine
Sol Lewitt
Urs Lüthi
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Piero Manzoni
Mario Merz
Antoni Muntadas
Takashi Murakami
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Bruce Nauman
Paulo Nazareth
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Albert Oehlen
Roman Opalka
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Philippe Parreno
Giuseppe Penone
Sigmar Polke
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Charles Ray
Martial Raysse
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Bridget Riley
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Thomas Schütte
Cindy Sherman
Alina Szapocznikow
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Claire Tabouret
Diana Thater
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Lee Ufan
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Danh Vo
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Franz West
Doug Wheeler
Robert Whitman
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Marlene
Dumas

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>Mamma Roma

>Angels in uniform

theme tag

>Suffering

>Classic in the contemporary

The image as burden

Born in South Africa in 1953, Marlene Dumas paints pictures of human figures. At first sight, they appear to be portraits painted from life, but Dumas is more than a figurative artist. She takes as a starting point images that already exist, such as photographs from books, films or newspapers, or scenes glimpsed on TV, in cinema works or in newspapers. Dumas then freezes these ephemeral images on her canvases. Her figures become symbols or embodiments of universal topics. The naked bodies, drawn faces, and intense expressions that she paints, convey themes such as violence, race issues, religion, love, suffering and death. Through each subject, Marlene Dumas represents a single life, and at the same time, a collective history known to us all and happening in front of our eyes.


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The image as burden

Born in South Africa in 1953, Marlene Dumas paints pictures of human figures. At first sight, they appear to be portraits painted from life, but Dumas is more than a figurative artist. She takes as a starting point images that already exist, such as photographs from books, films or newspapers, or scenes glimpsed on TV, in cinema works or in newspapers. Dumas then freezes these ephemeral images on her canvases. Her figures become symbols or embodiments of universal topics. The naked bodies, drawn faces, and intense expressions that she paints, convey themes such as violence, race issues, religion, love, suffering and death. Through each subject, Marlene Dumas represents a single life, and at the same time, a collective history known to us all and happening in front of our eyes.


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