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The artistic duo Bernd and Hilla Becher were German photographers that explored the cultural impact of industrial design and the need for preservation through photographic series, memorializing them in single-image, gridded gelatin silver prints.
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William Blake was an English painter and poet who was very influential during the late-eighteenth-century Romantic Age of poetry and the visual arts.
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Lee Miller was an American photographer and former fashion model who lived abroad in Paris and collaborated with Man Ray and other Surrealists. During World War II, she became well known as a war-time correspondent, covering the London blitz, the liberation of Paris, and freeing of the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau.
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Japanese Modern Artists
Below are biographies and analysis of the achievements of Japanese artists. We are adding more artists every week, so stay tuned as the most important artists in modern art are given proper coverage.
YOUR SELECTIONS: Japanese Painter and Conceptual Artist
Movements and Styles: Conceptual Art, Process Art, Post-Minimalism
Born: December 24, 1932 - Kariya, Japan
Died: July 10, 2014 - New York, NY
On Kawara was a contemporary Japanese-American artist that gained wide acclaim for his conceptual and meticulously executed series of works - the near-daily creation of which he maintained for many decades.
Japanese Painter, Sculptor, Installation artist, Curator, Art Critic, and Cultural Entrepreneur
Movements and Styles: Superflat, Neo Pop Art
Born: February 1, 1962 - Tokyo, Japan
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami draws on Japanese popular culture to create his anime-like style he calls Superflat, notable for its flat planes of bright color. He uses and abuses the confluence between high and low art, producing both commercial luxury goods, cheap trinkets, and fine art.
American Sculptor and Designer
Movements and Styles: Surrealism, Social Realism
Born: November 17, 1904 - Los Angeles, California
Died: December 30, 1988 - New York, New York
Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese-American modern artist. Best known for his organic, biomorphic sculpture works, Noguchi was also a furniture designer and landscape artist.
Japanese-American Photographer
Movements and Styles: Modern Photography, Conceptual Art
Born: February 23, 1948 - Tokyo, Japan
Sugimoto explores abstract concepts, such as time, vision, and belief, through meticulously balanced, conceptual photographs of itself.
