Zhang Xiaogang (1958- ; Chinese name 张晓刚), born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, was a world-renowned contemporary Chinese painter. He has been taking part in important exhibitions at home and abroad frequently since early 1990s and has won many international prizes. He began to be know ......
Zeng Fanzhi (1964- ; Chinese name 曾梵志), a Chinese painter born in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, was considered to be one of the most representative contemporary artists who have international influence. His works were displayed at a series of important international art events ......
Yue Minjun (1962- ; Chinese name 岳敏君), a famous contemporary Chinese painter who was born in the city of Daqing, has held many solo exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are collected by many museums at home and abroad, for example, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Franco ......
Wang Yidong (1955-; Chinese name 王沂东), born in the city of Penglai, Shandong Province, is one of the most talented contemporary Chinese oil painting artists. He is a member of the council of China Artists Association and also teaches at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has bee ......
Wang Guangyi (1957- ; Chinese name 王广义), born in Harbin, is a Chinese installation artist and painter and a main participant in the “Chinese New Art Movement” (“85 New Wave Movement”). He went through the 10-year Great Cultural Revolution in China when he was young. His traditional Chine ......
Tamara de Lempicka (Polish: Tamara Łempicka), 1898-1980, female and was bisexual, Poland-born, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Lempicka's distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly, epitomizing the cool yet sensua ......
Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than Dali art. The largest collections of Dal ......
Roy Fox Lichtenstein, 1923-1997, was an American pop artist, a leading figure in the new art movement. Lichtenstein painting defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. He favored the comic strip as his main inspiration. Whaam! and Drowning Girl are generally regarded as th ......
René François Ghislain Magritte, 1898-1967, was a Belgian surrealist artist, well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by him, include Andy Warhol. His influence of Pop ......
Pino Daeni, 1939-2010, was an Italian-American painter who was known for his style of feminine, romantic women painted with loose but accurate brushwork. Pino art often revolved sensuous women in beaches and boudoir settings indoors in tetradic color schemes that evoked the 20th century ......
Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, was a Spanish painter, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement. Among Picasso paintings,the most famous are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Guernica (1937). Severa ......
Norman Perceval Rockwell, 1894-1978, was a American painter. Rockwell art enjoy a popular appeal for their reflection of American culture. The best-known Rockwell paintings are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, etc.. In 2013-2014 the majorit ......
Marc Zakharovich Chagall, 1887-1985, was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Chagall oil paintings suggested both Jewish and Christian themes. He synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism. He was considered to be th ......
Joan Miró i Ferrà, 1893-1983, was a Catalan Spanish painter, in the movement of Surrealism, Dada, Personal, Experimental. Two museums dedicated to Miró art, the Fundació Joan Miró, and the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró. The artist developed unique style: organic forms and flattened picture ......
Jack Vettriano, 1951-, is a Scottish contemporary painter. His oil painting, The Singing Butler, became a best selling image in Britain. The artist has been described as a purveyor of " soft porn" and a painter of " dim erotica ". In his works women are sexual objects ......
Paul Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. In 2004, One: Number 31 was ranked the 8th most influential piece of modern art in a poll of 500 artist ......
Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, a French artist, was known for his brilliant use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was initially labeled a Fauvism (wild beast); by the 1920s he was hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French oil painting. His mastery ......
Frida Kahlo de Rivera, 1907-1954, was a Mexican female painter who is best known for her self-portraits, is wife of Diego Rivera. Frida art has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition and by feminists. Frida Kahlo paintings are characterized as n ......
Fernando Botero Angulo, 1932-, is a Colombian figurative artist. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America, and Botero paintings can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs Elysée ......
Fang Lijun (1963-; Chinese name 方力钧), born in the city of Handan, Hebei Province, was one of the contemporary Chinese painters who enjoyed the biggest international fame in 1990s. He is one of the most important representatives of the 89 New Art Wave and the director of the Contempo ......
Edward Hopper, 1882-1967, was a prominent American realist painter, was most popularly known for his oil paintings, and equally proficient as a watercolorist. Significant paintings by Edward Hopper are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Des Moines Art Center, and the ......
Diego Rivera, 1886-1957, was a prominent Mexican painter of wall works and the husband of Frida Kahlo, establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. In 1931, an exhibition of Diego Rivera paintings was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The artist repainted M ......
Chen Yifei (1946-2005; Chinese name 陈逸飞), a famous Chinese painter and visual artist, was a key figure in the history of the development of Chinese oil painting and also the most famous Chinese painter among the western world. Taking Chinese elements as his subjects, Chen’s realisti ......
Ai Xuan (1947- ; Chinese name 艾轩), born in the city of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, is a Chinese painter known to the world for his realistic oil paintings about Tibet. He is a son of the poet Ai Qing and the elder brother of artist Ai Weiwei. He held many positions such as a member of Chi ......
Chen Haiwei (1971-; Chinese name 陈海威) is a contemporary Chinese painter who was born in Xianyou County, Fujian province. He is now a lecturer of oil painting major at Putian University, Fujian province and a member of Fujian Artist Association. ......
Duan Yuhai (1962 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter who is good at oil painting. The artist is a professor with master degree and a member of government-affiliated Yunnan Province Artists Association. He teaches in several academies of fine art in China respectively and holds position ......
Wu Dayong (1977 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter who is good at oil painting. The artist is an associate professor with doctor degree, teaches in several academies of fine art in China respectively. The contemporary artist has taken part in many art exhibitions at home and abro ......
Liu Lei (1973 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter who is good at oil painting. The artist has taken part in many art exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards. Liu Lei’s works are already collected by organizations and collectors. ......
Ye Qizhang (1938 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter who is good at oil painting. The artist is a member of government-affiliated China Artists Association. He (She) teaches in several academies of fine art in China respectively and holds positions in several government run art institu ......
Zhou Qiuyan (1969 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter with master degree who is good at pencil sketch and oil painting. She teaches in several academies of fine art in China respectively and holds positions in several government run art institutions and folk art organizations. The ......