What artist, famous for his themes of African-American life, was a longtime social worker and active in several arts organizations dedicated to promoting minority artists?
What German photographer decided to leave advertising to study at the Düsseldorf Academy, where she taught photography and also met her future husband & artistic partner?
Which 16th-century Italian artist was, along with his brother, a leading proponent of the Mannerist style that dominated Roman painting in the second half of the century?
Which Japanese-born American painter, photographer, and printmaker was the first living artist to ever be honored by a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum?
One of France’s most influential painters, this artist led a life of controversy for his support of the French Revolution, his friendship with Robespierre, and his approval of the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
This Dutch artist and writer, an important abstract painter of the early 20th century, was the founder and editor of the art journal De Stijl, which led to the formation of a new artistic collective with the same name.
What 17th-Century Italian artist’s paintings consist primarily of devotional images of the Virgin and Holy Family in a 15th-Century Raphaelesque manner?
What French Neoclassical painter assumed guardianship of traditional Neoclassicism against the Romanticism represented by his nemesis Eugene Delacroix?
Which English painter, illustrator, and designer, a founding member of William Morris’s decorative arts company, had a low-key career until he gained overnight fame with eight paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877?
Which children’s illustrator said that she was the reincarnation of a sea captain’s wife who lived in the 1800s, and that it was this earlier life she was depicting with her pastel watercolors and delicately penciled lines?
This Dutch Golden Age artist, specializing in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes, often included an image of a red admiral butterfly (symbolizing life, death and resurrection) in various locations within her paintings.
This American artist, once described as combining “bad taste and good ideas”, worked in every conceivable medium — found objects, textile banners, assemblage, collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, music, video, and photography.
What Mexican painter brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba to create Mixografia, a bas-relief printing process that results in works that are mural-sized yet three-dimensional in texture?
What 20th Century African-American artist and art educator worked in both figural and abstract styles, with forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design?
After she entered her 80s this American artist, well known for her vivid Surrealist imagery, began to concentrate on writing: producing a novel, an autobiography, and poems that appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker,The Yale Review and The Paris Review.
From 1935 to 1941, this renowned cartoonist worked for Walt Disney as a story man and animator, with credits on Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia; his work also appeared in comic books for the company that became DC Comics, and for Dell’s Animal Comics.
Which Renaissance painter, regarded as the first woman artist outside a court or convent, was commissioned to make not only portraits — the typical subject matter for women painters — but also religious and mythological paintings?
Which feminist artist — noted for her series such as Black Paintings and War Series — expressed her outrage and anger in both art and action, joining several activist groups including the Art Workers Coalition and Women Artists in Revolution?
What artist’s most famous work, created in 1876 and originally titled Yankee Doodle, was so popular that he painted a number of different versions during the remainder of his life?
What sculptor is remembered for his achievements in the development of Cubism, transforming the formal characteristics of the style from painting into three-dimensional works?
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