What Seventeenth Century painter explained that, to him, various subjects made different demands on an artist and required very different expressive means to properly fulfill them?
What artist–renowned for drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture–drew the famous 1976 New Yorker cover “View of the World from 9th Avenue”?
What Austrian Expressionist is known for his erotic paintings, anguished self-portraits, and a life marked by scandal, notoriety, & an early death by influenza three days after the death of his pregnant wife?
What Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer of 13 wars produced his best-known photograph while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press?
What English Romantic painter, famous for his landscapes, wrote that painting “is with me but another word for feeling”?
What painter (along with David Hare, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko) founded the Subjects of the Artist School, a short-lived (1948–9) school aimed at promoting avant-garde art?
This pioneering figure in the history of modernism flouted the authority of the state by publicly refusing the award of the Legion of Honor, declaring his independence from any form of government.
This painter was one of the principal exponents of Fauvism, however during his lifetime he went on to adopt Cubism and eventually Classism.
What architect’s career spanned seven decades before his death in 1959 — during which he designed 1,114 architectural works, of which 532 were realized?
What artist moved his family and studio from NYC to rural New York just as he was achieving widespread recognition in 1951, remaining there for the rest of his life?
In the summer of 1623, this artist was summoned to Madrid to paint a portrait of the King of Spain; its success led to his being named official painter to the king and he remained attached to the court for the rest of his life.
This artist left for England in 1780 to study under renowned history painter Benjamin West; in 1817 he returned to America where he secured a commission for four large paintings to be placed in the Capitol Rotunda.
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