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- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, was an American artist, a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Andy Warhol paintings explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, as the largest museum in USA dedicated to a single artist. Many films by avant-garde cineast Jonas Mekas have caught the moments of Warhol's life. The diptych "Silver Car Crash" sold at Contemporary Ar ......
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- Frida Kahlo
- 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 naïve art or folk art, and surrealist. The artist became the first Hispanic woman to be honored with a U.S. postage stamp. Bank of Mexico issued a MXN$ 500-peso note, featuring Frida and her artwork.In 2006, Frida ......
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- Joan Miro
- 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 planes drawn with a sharp line, interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols. Joan Miró paintings were sold for between US$250,000 and US$26 million. In 2012, Painting-Poem was sold for $26.6 million ......
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- Norman Rockwell
- 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 majority of Rockwell oil painting was exhibited at the Reading Public Museum and the Church History Museum. The 1994 film Forrest Gump drew heavy visual inspiration from Rockwell paintings.His Breaking Home Ties sold fo ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Norman-Rockwell-Artist-1654/
- Wu Zuoren
- Wu Zuoren (1908.11.3-1997.4.9, Chinese name 吴作人), born in the city of Suzhou, was a contemporary Chinese artist famous for oil painting and traditional Chinese painting. He was the chairman of China Artists Association and the Dean of China Academy of Fine Arts, and was also in charge of other positions. He was honored with “Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture and a top level Belgian royal honorary order. Between 1966 and 1972, due to the ongoing G ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Zuoren-Artist-1674/
- Zao Wou-Ki
- Zao Wou-Ki (1921.2.13-2013.4.9, Chinese name 赵无极) was a French-Chinese painter who was born in Beijing. He was awarded “Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting” by the Japanese Art Association, Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, academician of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and many other honors. He held more than 160 solo exhibitions in over 100 countries. His works were highly appreciated and recommended by French President Chirac. In his early days, he studied with Lin Fengmian, a famous Chin ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zao-Wou-Ki-Artist-1668/
- Zhang Xiaogang
- 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 known world-wide when his “Bloodline: the Big Family” series were collected by many European museums in the beginning of 21st century. The artist expressed collective psychological memories and emotions by using the ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zhang-Xiaogang-Artist-1667/
- Yue Minjun
- 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 Francois Mitterrand Cultural Center. His typical male images that close their eyes and smile exaggeratively with their mouth wide open are regarded as a kind of nationalization and marketization. They are often connect ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Yue-Minjun-Artist-1665/
- Boulevard montmartre spring (Le Boulevard de Montmartre Matinée de Printemps)
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- The Entrance to the Grand Canal Venice
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- Garden at Sainte-Adresse
- ... Museum of Art after an auction sale at Christie's in ...
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- The Water Lily Pond II
- ... million at a Sotheby's auction in London.[12] On 24 ...
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- Poplars on the Banks of the River Epte
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- Four Trees
- ... to sell the trees at auction. Monet paid a local lumber ...
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- The Grand Canal (Le Grand Canal)
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- Sunlight Effect under the Poplars
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- Poplars on the Banks of the Epte
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- Gaspar de Guzmán Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback
- www.contemporary-art.org/Oil-Painting/Gaspar-de-Guzmán-Count-Duke-of-Olivares-on-Horseback-Works-11444.html
- The Bellelli Family (Family Portrait)
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- Rue Mosnier decorated with Flags
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- View of the 1867 Exposition Universelle
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- Portrait Of Eugenia Primavesi
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- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
- www.contemporary-art.org/Oil-Painting/Portrait-of-Adele-Bloch-Bauer-II-Works-15289.html