Sigmar Polke (born February 13 1941) is a German post-modern painter and photographer. Wikipedia article

Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland) is a well-known video artist. She lives and now lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles. Wikipedia article

Thomas Demand (born 1964 in Munich, Germany) is a German photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Wikipedia article

Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: Pete Mon-dree-on, ) (b. Amersfoort, Netherlands, March 7 , 1872 ? d. New York City, February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movemen...

Maurice de Vlaminck (April 4, 1876 - October 11, 1958) was a French painter, printmaker and author. Vlaminck was born to musician parents in Paris. As a youth he studied violin before becoming a professional cyclist. His career was ended by a bout wit...

Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (October 29 1930 - May 21, 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker... ...After the "Shooting paintings" came a period when she explored the various role...

Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, Category: wiktionary - :ash|ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Pau...

American Artist (1949 New Haven / Connecticut) Lives and works in New York Painting,drawing,mixed media,sculptures... 

Chuck Close (born Charles Thomas Close July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist before a catastrophic blood clot left him severely paralyzed. However, he has continued to paint and...

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement... In the process of making paintings in this way he moved away from figurative representation, and...

Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; November 12, 1840?November 17, 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recogni...

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 ? November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of th...

Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage...Viola's art deals largely with the centra...

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June, 1848 ? 9 May, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inh...

"Death Hope Life Fear"  "Fundamental and New Testamental Pictures"  "George Passmore"   "Gilbert Proesch"  "Ginko Pictures"  "Life Without End"   &quo...

Joseph Beuys (; May 12, 1921 ? January 23, 1986) was an influential German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the powe...

Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist. His work involves stuffed animals, textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video... Wi...

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. He is noted for his use of kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture and other forms, often in large scale...Among curators and art collectors and others in the art world Koons' work is labele...

Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (b. October 22 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines"...

Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) 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, France. Born in Paris, he studied at &...

Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art. New York critics of Klein's time classify him as neo-Dada, but other critics, such as Thomas McEvilley in an essay submitted...

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August, 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. He grew up in Basel...

Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American photographer and film director known for her conceptual self-portraits. Sherman currently works in New York.Sherman grew up in Huntington, New York on Long Island. She was...

Thomas Hirschhorn (born in Bern, 1957) is a Swiss installations artist. In the 1980's he worked in Paris as a graphic artist. He was part of the group of communist graphic designers called Grapus. These artists were concerned with politics and culture...

Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. Serra was born in San Francisco and he went on to st...

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003, p2...

Man Ray (August 27, 1890-November 18, 1976, aged 86) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, altho...

Hermann Nitsch (b. 1938) is an Austrian artist who works in experimental and multimedia modes. He is associated with the Vienna Actionists, and like them conceives of his art outside traditional categories of genre. In the 1950s, Nitsch conceived of t...

Georg Baselitz (born January 23, 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist, but from a E...

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his...

James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is an acclaimed American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. He was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In junior high school, Rosenquist won a short-term scholarship to study at the Mi...

Victor Vasarely  (9 April, 1906, Pécs - 15 March, 1997, Paris) was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece &mdash...

Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou on June 19 1946 in Limassol, Cyprus to Greek Cypriot parents) is an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are c...

Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 - February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifestoes The Art of Noises (1913) and Musica Futurista....On 11 March 1913 he published the treatise The Art of Noises (L'arte de...

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art, art that exploits the fallibility of the human eye. Bridget was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College; she studied art...

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 ? February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an...

Frida Kahlo (July 61907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist, she was married to Mexican muralist and cubist painter Dieg...

Egon Schiele (June 12 1890 - October 31 1918) (pronounced approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's oeuvre is noted for the intensity and the large...

Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 - 8 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style...After 1947 he became a more important French painter. That year he exhibited his works for the first time in Paris...His freewheel...

Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, graphi...

Mark Rothko born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker who is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he rejected not only the label but even being an abstract painter....

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 ? October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contribution...

Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 ? April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sc...

Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. In his early years, Rainer was influenced by the Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the Hundsgruppe (dog group...

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