Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated...
Arshile Gorky , was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on...
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist. Her paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition,...
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt...
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist. Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated in Quincy public schools and at Phillips Academy Andover, where he became friends...
Rufino Tamayo was a Zapotecan Indian painter born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, of Mestizo parents. Tamayo moved to Mexico City, following the death of his mother in 1911,...
Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris,...
For the Chicago politician Michael Kenna, see Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna is an English photographer known for his landscapes. Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury...
Robert Indiana is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art...
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer who lives in Berlin and London. He won the Turner Prize in 2000. Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Remscheid in Germany. He lived and worked...
David Salle is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where...
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky , better known as El Lissitzky , was a Russian...
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known...
Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. In his youth...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical...
Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. Hesse was born into a family of observant...
Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography. Benvenuto Cellini was...
Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures....
Georges Braque was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism. Georges Braque was born in...
Bill Brandt was an influential British photographer and photojournalist known for his high-contrast images of British society and his distorted nudes and landscapes. Born...
Paul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris...
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Millais ...
André Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His...
Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned...
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with...