Alex Katz is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn,...
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century....
Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one...
John Baldessari, is a conceptual artist. His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His...
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Dubuffet was born in Le Havre. He moved to...
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England....
Elizabeth Peyton is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends, pop...
Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement...
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani...
Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a dizzying range of styles and media as well as his provocative,...
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works...
Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international...
Andrew Newell Wyeth is an American realist painter, and regionalist artist. He is one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People"...
Masaccio , was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His...
Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting...
Joan Miró i Ferrà was an ethnic Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Earning international acclaim,...
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose monumental paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work...
Steven Holl is an American academic architect and watercolorist best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial...
Robert Henri was an American painter notable for his teaching abilities, and for leadership of the Ashcan School movement in art. Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad...
Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance....
Duccio di Buoninsegna was one of the most influential Italian artists of his time. Born in Siena, Tuscany, he worked mostly with pigment and egg tempera and like most of his...
August Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter . He lived during a particularly innovative time for...
Helen Frankenthaler is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. She was...
Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is...
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New...