John Baldessari Conceptual Art Pioneer Dies Age 88

John Baldessari Conceptual Art Pioneer Dies Age 88

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 5, 2020) has died aged 88. He was an American conceptual artist best known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. Baldessari lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Baldessari...
Carlos Cruz-Diez Protagonist Of Kinetic And Op Art Dies

Carlos Cruz-Diez Protagonist Of Kinetic And Op Art Dies

The Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, born Caracas, 1923 has died in Paris where he lived and worked since 1960. Cruz-Diez was a major protagonist in the field of Kinetic and Optical art, a movement that encouraged “an awareness of the instability of...
Leon Kossoff Leading School Of London Painter Dies Age 92

Leon Kossoff Leading School Of London Painter Dies Age 92

The death of Leon Kossoff, who died on 4 July after a short illness is nearly the end of an era for the great wave of British painting known as the School of London. I think of painting as a form of drawing – LK 1979 Kossoff was born in Islington, and spent most...