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A burst of white spray erupts from a turquoise swimming pool beside a yellow diving board, in front of a flat pink modernist house with two palm trees under a clear blue sky

A Bigger Splash

David Hockney
1967
A young woman with long auburn hair sits in a small boat draped with an embroidered tapestry, letting go of its chain; three candles and a crucifix at the prow, dark wooded banks beyond

The Lady of Shalott

John William Waterhouse
1888
Gallery installation of open timber shelving crowned with rows of upright candles in pinks, blues and greens; the shelves hold small figurines and religious ornaments around a central wooden table and chair.

Art and Religion Room From Museum of Contemporary African Art

Meschac Gaba
1997–2002
Vibrant quilted wall hanging of a stylised mask-like face with huge concentric eyes in yellow, pink, blue and orange, on a green ground bordered by multicoloured checkerboard squares and zigzag bands

European Mask

Pacita Abad
1990
Six Black figures sit talking in a living room papered with photographic collage, a toddler in green dungarees beside a low table of plates, with fireplace, television and record player around them

Remain, Thriving

Njideka Akunyili Crosby
2018
A soft-edged crimson rectangular frame, like a doorway with a missing top corner, floats on a smoky maroon ground painted in thin feathery layers

Red on Maroon

Mark Rothko
1959
In a stormy woodland glade a woman in flowing pink robes raises a wand overhead, women and a sprawled nude gathered at her feet, while ghostly figures and large bubbles float among the trees

Vision of Medea

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1828
A slender ladder of dark steel leans against a white brick wall, its lower half bowing sharply sideways as if buckled, with a faint tracery of thin wire hanging behind its rungs

35°9,32°18

Richard Wentworth
1985
A huge bouquet of white lilies, blossom and red roses fills a deep blue night scene; an embracing couple floats above, and below appear a crescent moon, a rooster, a bridge and a tiny rowing boat

Bouquet with Flying Lovers

Marc Chagall
c.1934–47
Two near-identical women sit upright side by side in bed, each wearing a white lace ruff and headdress and holding a red-wrapped swaddled baby; painted in a stiff, flat Tudor style

The Cholmondeley Ladies

Unknown artist, Britain
c.1600–10

Conversation with Magic Stones

Dame Barbara Hepworth
1973

Untitled (Invention of a Joke)

Martin Kippenberger
1991
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David Hockney

1937–2026

Mark Rothko

1903–1970

Ana Mendieta

1948–1985
Misty blue-green twilight view across a calm river to a dark far bank with scattered orange lights; a long low barge drifts at left and a lone figure stands on the muddy near shore

James McNeill Whistler

1834–1903
Loose expressive brushwork in pinks, reds and blues: a figure slumps face-down over a bed, dark red paint bleeding and dripping down the canvas, while a small blue cat sits on a chest of drawers at upper right

Tracey Emin

born 1963
Gallery installation: visitors lie on scattered cushions on a dark circular carpet before wall-size video projections of giant close-ups of pink petals, red flowers, skin and a huge blue eye, bathing the room in rosy light

Pipilotti Rist

born 1962

Andy Warhol

1928–1987
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Semi-abstract scene in pale yellows and blues: a rainbow arcs over a green hill, orange-capped soldiers with tall black lances stand at right, and sabre-wielding horsemen clash in outline at upper left.
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Cubist still life in muted browns, greys and greens, fragmented into overlapping angular planes; the faint outline of a bottle at upper left and fish laid on a table below emerge from the shifting facets of brushy oil paint.
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Comic-book style diptych: at left a fighter plane fires a rocket, its pilot's words in a yellow caption box; at right the target explodes in red and yellow flame beneath the huge word 'WHAAM!'
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Chris Steele-Perkins Blackpool Beach 1980–9

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