Belgian · 1958 – present
Luc Tuymans
Figurative painting
Tuymans' pale, cropped paintings changed the course of figurative painting in the 1990s. He paints history — colonialism, war, power — through banal, unsettling images.
Best-known works
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Where to see the work
- —SMAK, Ghent
- —Tate Modern, London
- —MoMA, New York
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