It was Warhol who pioneered the use of silkscreens to graft photographic images onto canvas in the early 1960s: Rauschenberg boldly borrowed the idea but translated it into his own allegorical aesthetic.
Though the Spaniards bought the canvas in the 1650's, it stayed with Haro himself, and eventually returned to London, where it is one of the stars of the National Gallery.
He developed his ideas intensively, in a programme of conscious planning that resembled the great academic projects of Leonardo or Géricault, before finally painting his 8ft square canvas in the early summer.
Mr. Ruiz later indulged his passion for storytelling on a large social canvas in the 2010 film "Mysteries of Lisbon," a twisting, incident-packed chronicle of the Portuguese aristocracy during the civil wars of the 19th century, which many critics regarded as the capstone to his career.
Still a way off their blistering best, Port Adelaide have at least done a decent job of pulling themselves up off the canvas in the past two weeks, firstly against Melbourne a fortnight ago and also in running away from the Bulldogs in the final term last week.
Although both the Cubists and the Futurists conveyed movement and speed within the two dimensions of a painting, it was Pollock who brought dynamic movement to the canvas in the 1950s with his form of abstract expressionism known as gestural painting in works such as Autumn Rhythm, 1950.
A spot check of ads in directories every 10 years first shows a canvas canopy projecting over the sidewalk in an ad for H. Krienke, a canvas manufacturer, in the 1884 Trow's New York City Directory.
An untitled canvas painted in the early 1960s shot to $9.32 million.
It was designed as a hot-melt adhesive for the lining of canvas paintings in the early 1970s, but has since then become a popular adhesive for paint layers in need of consolidation.
He works mainly in oil paint on canvas, but in the past 18 months, has started making ceramic sculptures, mostly using air-dried clay.
