Which painter’s portrait of Louis XIV in his coronation costume set the image of what a state portrait should be: column and background landscape, glistening drapes, solemn pose, intense colors?
Which artist conveyed Futurism’s fascination for the energy of modern life with his own personal style, approaching pure abstraction and rendering motion by showing simultaneous aspects of a moving object?
This 18th century painter believed that portraiture could rise above its traditional status as mere ‘face-painting’ by making reference to the great art of the past.
Until he began to get official recognition in his mid-forties, this French artist lived on a small allowance from his parents, who fondly regarded him as a talentless amateur.
What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?
What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?
In 1897, this painter led a group of 19 avant-garde artists that broke away from Vienna’s conservative Künstlerhaus (the main exhibition venue for contemporary art) to form a new movement: the Vienna Secession.
This sculptor’s later works included a monumental figure commemorating the bombing of Rotterdam and a monument to van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise.
What painter and sculptor settled in Paris in 1906 and rapidly established his own idiosyncratic style, with its easily recognizable elongated figures and heads, almond-shaped eyes, and simple, linear contours?
What realist artist, one of the most popular and also most lambasted in the history of American painting, created work which sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art?
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?
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