Artists by Time Period: Modernism

Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi
Authors, Artists

Constantin Brâncuşi, , pronounced [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ], was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor whose sculptures, which blend simplicity and sophistication,...

Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Authors, Artists

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but...

Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger
Authors, Artists

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand...

Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth
Artists

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and along with her contemporaries in England such as Ivon Hitchens, Henry...

Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Artists

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high...

Emily Carr
Emily Carr
Authors, Artists

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes...

Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth
Authors, Artists

Charles Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism. "Search the history of American...

James Ensor
James Ensor
Artists, Authors

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire...

Dušan Džamonja
Dušan Džamonja
Artists

Dušan Džamonja (Macedonian: Душан Џамоња, pronounced [duʃan d͡ʒamɔɲa]; January 31, 1928 – January 14, 2009) was a contemporary Croatian sculptor of Macedonian origin. Džamonja's work shows a...

Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo
Artists

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,...

Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
Artists

Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public...

David Smith
David Smith
Artists

David Roland Smith (March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Born in Decatur, Indiana...

Ramon Casas i Carbó
Ramon Casas i Carbó
Artists

Ramon Casas i Carbó (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmoŋ ˈkazəs]) (4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native...

Henry Moore
Henry Moore
Artists

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English artist and sculptor. He is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public...

Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn
Artists

Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876, Woodstown, New Jersey – May 1, 1953, New York City) was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, also known as 'the Eight.' He was the...

Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes
Artists

Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is an artist. In her first UK exhibition she showed paintings using Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist...

Lorser Feitelson
Lorser Feitelson
Artists, Authors

Lorser Feitelson (1898, New York – 1978, Los Angeles, California) was born and raised in New York city but rose to prominence on the West Coast as one of the founding fathers of Southern...

Robert H. Hudson
Robert H. Hudson
Artists

Robert Hudson (born 1938) is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San...

Paul Păun
Paul Păun
Authors, Artists

Paul Păun or Paúl Yvenez (born Paul Zaharia on 5 September 1915, Bucharest and died on 9 April 1994, Haifa) was a Romanian Surrealist artist and writer, being a doctor at the same time...

Mino Argento
Mino Argento
Artists

Mino Argento (born January 5, 1927) is an Italian artist, whose works comprise abstract paintings on canvas and paper. Mino Argento was born in Rome, Italy in 1927. He worked in architecture...

Jack Boynton
Jack Boynton
Artists

Jack Boynton (January 12, 1928 – April 5, 2010) was an American Contemporary Surrealist artist. Jack Boynton was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1928. James W. Boynton was known professionally...

Stephen Namara
Stephen Namara
Artists

Stephen Namara (February 28, 1953) is an American Contemporary Surrealist artist. Stephen Namara, born in Kenya, East Africa in 1953. His drawings capture the fluidity of the subject and the...

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