THE ART TRUMP GAME ILLUSTRATED BY MIKKEL SOMMER

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1 THE ART TRUMP GAME ILLUSTRATED BY MIKKEL SOMMER

2 PABLO PICASSO ( ) It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Prolific and wildly inventive, Picasso shaped the course of modern art from his Blue Period to Cubism to African-influenced Demoiselles. Muses included Marie-Thérèse Walter m 79 40

3 LOUISE BOURGEOIS ( ) The great feminist artist of the twentieth century, Bourgeois turned her hand to many styles. Phalluses, giant spiders and fragmentary marble figures were among the recurring motifs of her sprawling, spidery corpus m 70 73

SALVADOR DALÍ (1904 1989) Wristwatches drooping like putty, a tiger leaping from a fish s mouth.

4 SALVADOR DALÍ ( ) Wristwatches drooping like putty, a tiger leaping from a fish s mouth. Dalí s imagination thronged with deranged allegories he called his method paranoiac-critical. Support for General Franco and unabashed commercialism alienated his Surrealist peers m 44 63

5 JACKSON POLLOCK ( ) Dubbed Jack the Dripper by Time in 1956, Pollock developed an all-over style of action painting, hurling paint on to horizontal canvases. Famed for his heroic persona, the critic Greenberg called him a kind of demiurgic genius. He died in a car crash m 76 63

6 MARK ROTHKO ( ) A painting is not about an experience, it is an experience claimed Rothko, who along with Pollock was the greatest of the Abstract Expressionists. His floating panes of colour ranged from the exuberant to the deathly. He committed suicide in his studio m 79 91

FRIDA KAHLO (1907 1954) They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

7 FRIDA KAHLO ( ) They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Mexico s greatest female artist began painting after a severe road accident. A third of her surviving pictures are self-portraits emblems of her trauma m 44 50

8 DAVID HOCKNEY (b. 1937) Hockney will forever be associated with his pristine, dazzling images of Californian pools and sun-kissed boys, or portraits such as the louche Londoners Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell. More recently he has churned out epic scenes of his native Yorkshire m 56 79

9 JEFF KOONS (b. 1955) Koons worked as a Wall Street banker in the 1980s to fund his artistic ambitions. Commercial savvy has continued to define his work, from the cool conceptualism of the Equilibrium series (basket balls floating in vitrines) to hyper-polished balloon animals m 71 47

10 AI WEIWEI (b. 1957) The dissident Chinese artist has been a thorn in the side of China s communist regime since returning to his home country from the USA in the early 1990s. He became an international cause célèbre after being placed under house arrest in m 75 58

BANKSY (birth date unknown) Once Banksy himself was elusive the guerrilla artist achieved fame through anonymous spray-painted gags in public places

11 BANKSY (birth date unknown) Once Banksy himself was elusive the guerrilla artist achieved fame through anonymous spray-painted gags in public places kissing policemen, or Christ holding shopping bags. Now the works themselves are increasingly disappearing as they are cut away to be sold m 33 4

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