The undisputed master of Art Nouveau was a Czech living in Paris, Alphonse Mucha.
At the age of 10, he was apprenticed to Hendrik van Balen, a successful Antwerp painter, and he must soon have come under the influence of Rubens, who after 1608 assumed undisputed leadership of art in Antwerp.
Bergman in his era was an undisputed colossus of the "art" cinema.
In a crowded field, a new troll has established himself as the undisputed master of the art.
Chelsea has been the undisputed center of the art market for the last decade, and the young and the new are concentrated below 14th Street.
In the decades that followed, New York became the undisputed capital of modern art, its artists, gallerists and critics pushing neo-dada, then pop, then minimalism, then post-minimalism… Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, everything looked different.
But the story of the last 50 years is one in which Picasso, once modern art's undisputed father figure, has had to accept joint paternity with Duchamp – and lately has seemed to be losing custody altogether.
A work of astounding originality, the picture is one of the undisputed masterpieces of European art – but that is not how they want you to see it at Tate Liverpool.
The drift seems clear and risks turning into a fierce current with Munster going into the game without Peter O'Mahony – recovering after surgery to his left shoulder – to take on Steffon Armitage, the undisputed king of the art of turning apparent chubbiness into the most perfectly sculpted shape for rugby's breakdown.
At just 31 years old, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the undisputed queen of the art world.
