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painter and performance artist. He is considered a pioneer in experimental art, rejecting traditional romanticism and confronting social and critical issues through a range of distinctive styles and media.
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death of his mother when the artist was an infant. The works also evoke the fluid line and form of works by such modernist masters as
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