Mark Rothko
1903- 1970
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz to Jewish family in Dvinsk, Russia (now Latvia). He is American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract Expressionist, although he rejected not only the label but even being an abstract painter.
After the ou[......]
Diego Rivera
1886 -1957
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist. He is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, “Man at the Crossroads,” in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his patron Nelson Rockefeller discovered that the mura[......]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition [......]
Odilon Redon
1840 -1916
Odilon Redon was a French painter and printmaker, one of the outstanding figures of Symbolism. He produced a rich and enigmatic corpus that explores haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes. By his own words: Like music, his drawings transport us to the ambiguous wo[......]
Raffaello Sanzio – Raphael
1483-1520
Raphael Sanzio or Raffaello was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. He was also called Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbi[......]
Jackson Pollock
1912-1956
Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five sons. He grew up in Arizona and California, studying at Los Angeles’ Manua[......]
Camille Pissarro
1830 -1903
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne.
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Pablo Picasso
1881 -1973
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was one of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism.
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, as the first child of José[......]
Georgia O’Keeffe
1887-1986
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was an American artist. She is typically associated with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled late in life. O’Keeffe has been a major figure in American Modernism since the 1920s. She is chi[......]
Neroccio dei Landi
1445- 1500
Neroccio dei Landi was a Sienese painter and sculptor of the Early Italian Renaissance. He continued the elegant and refined Sienese tradition that stretched back to Duccio and his work is particularly noted for its delicate coloring.
Neroccio was born in [......]