A self-confessed bibliophile, the artist wrote in 1990, "my books feed into the pictures I make with an untutored passion".In this section Waiting for God The workshop heroes A Suffolk lad Rock chick Obsessions Reprints Related topics T.S. EliotHere in microcosm is what makes Kitaj one of the most significant painters in post-war Europe and also what maddens so many of his detractors.
He had been dubbed "the most significant English painter to emerge in the early 1950s", and his Four Seasons exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London, in March 1956 had been a vast success.
At his death Twombly, whose work befuddled many American collectors and critics in the 1960s and '70s with its graffitilike scribbles and enigmatic Classical references, was considered among the most significant post-Abstract-Expressionist painters, along with his friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
The trail makes a tour of the enigmatic quattrocento painter's most significant works, and forms a big triangular shape over the bottom half of Tuscany, with Arezzo and Urbino as its furthest points.
In Franconia and the middle Rhineland the most important painters were Johann Zick and Carlo Carlone.
The painter, Johannes Verkolje the Elder, was the second-most important painter in Delft, after Vermeer, Dr. Zafran said.
Mr. Simpson was an Abstract Expressionist painter and arguably the most significant dealer of traditional African art in the United States, a man whose exquisite taste made him a pre-eminent expert in his field.
During the decades that followed he worked for the people, as a sculptor, painter, editor and designer, although it was in the area of photography that he made his most significant and lasting contribution.
It may not be equally apparent that the personality of the painter is just as significant and that the character of the relationship between them is perhaps the most significant of all.
The most significant: Maj.
