Although this artist’s paintings did much to popularize Cubism and broaden its influence just before WWI, he later abandoned the style and became one of France’s most influential advocates of traditional realism.
This early 20th century artist is best known for his multiple series of paintings exploring the Russian peasantry and their fraught relationship with a newly industrialized world.
What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?
What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?
What artist studied architecture briefly in Hanover and Stuttgart but in 1874, at about age twenty-one, became a student of painting at the Royal Academy in Munich?
What artist took up photography while very young but set it aside for a number of years to study botany, and later poetry, beginning to photograph seriously in 1937?
Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?
Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?
An important pioneer of postwar abstraction, this Belgian artist is best known for his paintings and sculptures primarily organized by vertical lines.
Born in 1947 in an East LA housing project, this artist was a high school senior when a friend gave him a photography textbook that had been left in a bathroom.
This French painter, whose training was grounded in decorative arts, was initially influenced by Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, and the Fauves but by 1910 he had gravitated toward Cubism.
In late December 2017, allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against this American artist who is famous for his massive-scale photorealistic portraits.
Which American etcher and lithographer was also a writer. producing numerous books as both author and illustrator, many of them in collaboration with his wife?
Which Italian painter experienced a turning point in his career when in 1928 he was inspired by the Etruscan collection seen while visiting Rome’s Villa Giulia?
What painter had a nearly sixty-year career on two continents, moving from Boston to London in 1774 and adapting his successful American portrait style to the more painterly British approach?
What Hungarian artist was a painter but earned his living from poster and graphic design works, writing and publishing extensively about commercial art?
What Hungarian-born photographer, who had a profound effect on hand-held photography, died in New York in 1985 leaving behind 100,000 negatives, many of which to this day remain unseen?
What designer, typographer, & painter wanted to be a chemist but when his parents couldn’t afford tuition turned to art, eventually co-founding one of Switzerland’s best-known ad agencies?
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