Gerhard Richter
Francis Bacon
R.B. Kitaj
Edward Hopper
Jackson Pollock
Lucian Freud
Louis le Brocquy
Gottfried Helnwein
Alberto Giacometti

Good afternoon.
Helnwein is combining large scale paintings into installations, and photographic series with paintings, which almost become film-like when viewed together.
I view his work (as a whole) as extremely modern, even 'cutting edge'. Yet, he works in acrylics and oils, primarily.
This is photorealism, and of a very high degree. (Yet the work is not about technique at all. It is about concept--this is conceptual art, as I believe it can and should be.)
The medium is not the message. ...