Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist. Born in Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican Christian mother, Boltanski was attracted to painting and drawing as a young child, and left school at the age of 12. In the late â€

Architectural, Atmospheric, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Dramatic, Ironic, Melancholy, Monumental, Tragic

Gustav Mahler was an Austrian composer and conductor, most famous for his monumental symphonies. His works show the influence of preceding Romantic composers, folk music, and hymns; in the works, he extended and broadened harmony, form, and orchestration. He said that all of his symphonies were “ni

Beautiful , Expansive, Grand, Monumental, Romantic music, Sophisticated, Visceral

Jenny Saville is a painter whose work is a dark reflection of contemporary fashion, depicting bodies that live outside the standard boundaries of attractiveness. Her feminist view of the female body shapes offers a valuable contrast to the mass media’s presentation of the perfectibility of the huma

Erotic, Figurative, Figurative painting, Huge, Monumental, Visceral, Young british artists

José Manuel Ciria was born in Manchester (UK) in 1960 but grew up in Spain. Ciria is one of the most active and internationally successful contemporary Spanish painters. His abstract work is featured in the collections of Spain’s most important museums, such as the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía and t

Abstract, Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Enigmatic, Erotic, Monumental, Visceral