THREE FIGURES IN A ROOM

... Task one, discuss and describe one piece of art from one of the galleries you visited and explain why you liked it. he 'artists and their models' exhibition in Hong Kong features 58 selected masterpieces using a range of media for example paint, sculpture and installation from the Centre Pompidou, Paris and features works by masters of the of the first half of the twentieth century, Picasso, Matisse, Bacon, Soutine and Balthus among others. These outstanding portraits demonstrate both the diverse creativity in which portraiture and the figures have been treated with and provide a comprehensive overview of the various important movements in the history of Western Art from the poignant temperament of expressionism to the mix and match installations of pop art. The exhibition is coherent, clear and unpredictable. It is divided thematically into Muses, Formal distortions, Interior visions, Portraits of friends and Pop Pastiche. As a training artist myself,

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