... and Francis Bacon. Artworks by these artists have been carefully selected to enable young audiences to explore the deeper meanings behind them. The first piece included in this exhibition is Painting 1977 by Peter Booth, who is a contemporary Australian figurative and surrealist painter born in 1940 in Sheffield, England. Most of Booth's artworks depict the difficult childhood he ... The grotesque is generally associated with bizarre and disturbing imagery and many artists have used this technique to present new perspectives on various subjects. Bennett uses this technique in his paintin...

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