This German-born American artist, radicalized by the trauma of World War I, said: “During the war I became interested in truth – in bitter truth and the struggle of life in general.”
This artist – often associated with the Bay Area figurative school – resists categorization, working in a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, posters, and sculptures.
What German-born Dutch artist constructed his most famous work — a photomontage created from a collage of two hundred photographs, prints, and postcards pasted and arranged on a secondary support — in 1923?
What 20th century Italian sculptor is most remembered for his monument to Pope Pius XII in St. Peter’s Basilica and for an enormous bronze of a horse outside the headquarters of the state-owned broadcasting system?
This Dutch painter and designer was part of the Dutch modernism movement in the 1920’s, creating lithographic posters for a variety of clients including KLM, Amstel, and the 1928 Summer Olympics.
This Catalan artist began drawing in his teens during a long convalescence from a serious illness contracted in 1940, and later abandoned his law studies to devote himself entirely to art.
This American modernist mystic painter is most notable for his “white writing” – light calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.
This 20th century artist switched from representational sculpted portraits to painting in the 1950’s, innovating the use of plastic resins and synthetic glazes and creating paintings lit from behind in shadow-box frames.
Which French artist’s personal drama was what brought her to popular attention, despite being critically renowned for her talent communicating in sculpture?
Which Mexican painter had a profound effect on the art world with his reintroduction of fresco painting, and with his large impact on the concept of public art?
In 1809, Napoleon made this artist Engraver to the Emperor; because of the large number of pieces supplied to the palaces, his firm became Furniture Suppliers to their Majesties two years later.
This German-born American photographer was among those who pioneered the use of the 35-mm camera in photojournalism, as well as one of the earliest devotees of available-light photography.
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