Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in October 1901 in Italian-speaking Switzerland...
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well-known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Magritte was born in Lessines,...
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol , was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known...
Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism. Ernst was born in Brühl, Germany,...
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output had considerable...
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky , was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant...
Joan Miró i Ferrà was an ethnic Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Earning international acclaim,...
Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-French...
Paul Klee was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by many different art trends, including expressionism, cubism,...
Edward St. John Gorey (ca. February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books. Edward St. John Gorey was born in Chicago. His...
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,...
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York...
Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was born in...
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures...
Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter. He was a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is known for its bold,...
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH is a British painter of German Origin. In May 2008, his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping was sold by auction by Christie's in New York City...
Alexander Calder , also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander...
Giorgio de Chirico was an influential pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He...
André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, near Senlis in Picardy, but was brought up in Belgium. He studied art in Brussels...
Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography...
Sir Sidney Nolan OM, AC (22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) was one of Australia's best-known painters and printmakers. Nolan was born in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne. He was the eldest of...
David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement. Gascoyne was born in Harrow and grew up in England and Scotland and...
Marcel Janco was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and architect, and one of the founders of the Dada movement. Janco was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest. A friend and...
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy was a surrealist painter. He was born in Paris, France, the son of a retired navy captain. His parents were both of Breton origin. After...
Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 - January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet. She was born in Albany, New York the second daughter of a...