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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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- Chen Yifei
- 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 realistic works are filled with strong classical nostalgia and romantic feelings, especially those blue and lonely women who wear traditional clothes. By interpreting new conceptions about modernity and lifestyles, the p ......
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- Diego Rivera
- 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 Man at the Crossroads in 1934 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 1940, He painted a mural for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Diego, Frida, and Leon Trotsky are prin ......
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- Edward Hopper
- 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 Art Institute of Chicago. In 1924, the oil painting titled "Hotel Window (1956)" was sold for $7,000; In 1999, it grow to around $10 million; In 2006, it sold for $26.89 million. East Wind Over We ......
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- Henri Matisse
- 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 of the expressive language of colour and drawing, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. In 1952 the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau dedicated to Matisse paintings. His work The Plum Blossoms was ......
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- Jackson Pollock
- 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 artists, curators, critics, and dealers. In 2000, the artist was the subject of an Academy Award-winning film Pollock. In 2006, No. 5, 1948 became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold for the sum ......
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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 ......
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- Pablo Picasso
- 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). Several oil paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. Garçon à la pipe was sold for US$104 million in 2004. In 2010, Green Leaves and Bust was sold for $106.5 million. He remained the t ......
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- Rene Magritte
- 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 art has been widely recognized. René Magritte art has been frequently adapted in advertisements, posters, book covers and the like. The Magritte Museum in Brussels displays some 200 Magritte paintings and drawing ......
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- Salvador Dali
- 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 Dali paintings are at the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain; followed by the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, it holds over 1,500 Dali oil paintings. Other significant collections include the Reina S ......
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- David Smith
- David Smith, 1906 – 1965, was an American sculptor and painter, in art movement of Abstract expressionism and Modernist, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures, received a Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University. Smith sculptures were included in two traveling exhibitions organized by the Museum of Modern Art and were shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual exhibition in New York. Smith represented the United States in the 1951 São Paulo Art Bien ......
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- Kansuke Yamamoto
- Kansuke Yamamoto (山本悍右) , 1914 – 1987, was a Japanese photographer and poet, and a prominent surrealist. He often created works which indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealistic ways. There are two books by Kansuke Yamamoto: “Yoruno Funsui”, 1938; and ”Batafurai (Butterfly)", 1970. He donated his body to science upon his death. His works were collected by below museums: Nagoya City Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The J. P ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Kansuke-Yamamoto-Artist-1683/
- Brassai
- Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász), 1899 – 1984, was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars. His 1933 book with photographs that captured the essence of Paris, entitled Paris de nuit (Paris by Night), gained great success, and brought him international fame. In 1948, he had a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Ar ......
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- Jeremy Blake
- Jeremy Blake, 1971 – 2007, was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects. He was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society group exhibition, "All the Pretty Corpses", in 2005. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Source: wikipedia ......
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- Wu Guanzhong
- Wu Guanzhong (1919.8.29-2010.6.25, Chinese name 吴冠中), born in the city of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China, was a contemporary Chinese painter, and an educator of modern painting. He taught at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and won many honors at home and abroad, for example, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, corresponding academician of Académie des Beaux-Arts. The artist was famous for both his artistic achievements and his moral character. He had published more than 40 alb ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Guanzhong-Artist-1675/
- 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/
- Wang Yidong
- 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 been holding solo exhibitions in the US, Hong Kong, Macao, Germany and other countries and regions. He integrates the classical western oil painting and the aesthetic connotation of Chinese ethnic culture into his w ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wang-Yidong-Artist-1664/
- Luo Zhongli
- Luo Zhongli (1948-; Chinese name 罗中立), born in the city of Chongqing, is a Chinese painter, educator. He was the dean of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and is now the dean of Chinese Contemporary Academy of Arts and also in charge of many other positions. His works have been on show at many exhibitions at home and abroad and have won many prizes. His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, National History Museum of Belgium, and Taiwan Mount Gallery. He has published albums of pain ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Luo-Zhongli-Artist-1966/
- Slobodan Peladić
- Slobodan Peladić (1962 - ) is a Serbian contemporary painter, sculptor and multimedia artist who was born in Šabac (Yugoslavia, now Serbia), was founder of Independent Artistic Association Kolektiv and director of The Association of Fine Artists of Šabac since 2000. Peladić artworks can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, National Museum in Šabac; and were exhibited at some group exhibitions in the country and abroad. ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Slobodan-Peladić-Artist-1752/
- Deryk Houston
- Deryk Houston (1954 - ) is a contemporary Canadian installation artist, sculptor, and painter who was interviewed by many televisions, radios, and newspapers. The subject of his artworks is about peace and exploring “why we are here”, as the artist said. Houston travelled to Baghdad and created large-scale art installations to call attention to the situation of the children of Iraq. Houston's artworks were featured in the documentary film “From Baghdad to Peace Country” by the National ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Deryk-Houston-Artist-1755/
- Claude Cehes
- Claude Cehes (1949 - ) is a contemporary French sculptor who lives in Paris and get commissions from many French cities. She often uses assorted materials to create artworks, such as bronze, marble, granite, polyester resin, wood, sponge, glass, rubber, even computer cables. Since 1975 the artist takes part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. She won a lot of honors and awards including laureate of the General Council of Ile de France, Neuman Prize of the Paris Jewish Museum, ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Claude-Cehes-Artist-1757/
- Yiannis Melanitis
- Yiannis Melanitis (also named as Ioannis Melanitis; Greek: Γιάννης Μελανίτης; 1967 - ) is a contemporary conceptual artist, performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, and digital artist who was born in Athens, Greece. Melanitis is a PhD Fellow; he was elected as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor at the Sculpture Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts.He held many personal exhibitions and joined numerous group exhibitions, often publish academic texts, and his works are collected by a ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Yiannis-Melanitis-Artist-1969/
- Zhang Heding
- Zhang Heding(1962 - ) is a contemporary Chinese traditional painter who was born in Jinan city, Shandong province. His pen name is Yunhe, meaning crane in clouds. He was taught by famous artists in China such as Zhang Zhiming, Cai Yushui, Song Shangzhai, etc.. Heding is good at painting Chinese landscapes, birds & flowers, especially green mountains.The artist has won many awards at various art exhibitions and competitions in China, and some paintings were exhibited in Jilu, Japan.Zhang Hedi ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zhang-Heding-Artist-2030/
- Chris Joseph
- Chris Joseph (1973 - ) is a UK multimedia artist who works primarily with electronic text, sound and image. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom, and is a British and Canadian citizen.His multimedia work is offered as single pieces or complete sets, has been widely exhibited in exhibitions around the world since 2002. Chris Joseph has received multiple awards for his artistic works, including the IBM Prize for New Media and the first 'Premio per l’Arte Digitale' awarded by the Ita ......
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- Ryota Matsumoto
- Ryota Matsumoto(Japanese name 松本良多; 1972 - ) is a Japanese artist, educator, and architect, based in New York and Tokyo. As a media theorist, he is regarded as the forefather of the postdigital art and architecture movements.Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at the Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art in the e ......
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- Zhuo Zhaohui
- Zhuo Zhaohui (Chinese Name: 卓朝晖; 1968 - ), a contemporary Chinese painter born in Fujian Province, is a member of the Fujian Artists Association. He has studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an art university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, and is a specially appointed painter at the Wu Guanzhong Art Museum. The artist is skilled in mixing oil paint and acrylics for artistic creation and has won awards at many national exhibitions. Zhuo Zhaohui's works are ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zhuo-Zhaohui-Artist-2091/
- Wu Dingliu
- Wu Dingliu (Chinese name: 吴定鎏; 1988 - ) is a contemporary Chinese painter born in Guizhou. He graduated from Nanchang University, achieved a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, and his works mainly depict the life and customs of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan province. He is a member of the China Artists Association and one of the top ten young oil painters in Guizhou Province. He holds official positions in various organizations, including the Director of Guizhou Provincial Artists Association and ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Dingliu-Artist-2092/
- Pond in the wood
- ... on paper262 x 374 mmBritish Museum, LondonDating from the same period ...
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- House by a Pond
- ... on paper21 x 23 cmBritish Museum, LondonA 'weierhaus'; a timber-framed ...
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- The Castle at Trento
- ... RenaissanceGenre: cityscapeWatercolour198 x 257 mmBritish Museum, LondonThis painting was done by ...
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