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Piet Mondrian.
b. 1872, d. 1944
Cake and ganache.
Known for precisely placed blocks of primary color along a grid.
Roy Lichtenstein.
b. 1923, d. 1997
Cake and icing.
Meshed highbrow with lowbrow in his pop art works.
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Wayne Thiebaud.
b. 1920
Cake and buttercream.
Painted lovely arrangements of buttercream party cakes.
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Robert Mapplethorpe.
b. 1946, d. 1989
Banana and chocolate.
Known for provocative photography with strong homoerotic themes.
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