New Pages Added to The Art Story
Dziga Vertov
Russian Filmmaker
Vertov was one of the most acclaimed of the Soviet filmmakers closely aligned with the Constructivist movement.
January 5, 2023
Max Pechstein
German Painter and Printmaker
Max Pechstein's boldly-colored nudes and landscapes exemplify his leadership in Expressionist art.
December 26, 2022
Degenerate Art
Degenerate Art was a term used by the Nazi party to modern art including Expressionism, Fauvism, Dada, Cubism, and Surrealism and well as art that was produced by Jewish artists.
December 25, 2022
Lucas Samaras
Greek/American Multi-media Artist
The painter and assemblage artist Lucas Samaras has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its scope and inventiveness.
December 22, 2022
Derek Jarman
English Filmmaker, Author, Activist, Painter, and Stage Designer
A pioneering gay filmmaker, Derek Jarman trained as a painter but became known for pushing the boundary of experimental cinema and for his explorations of identity.
December 21, 2022
Josefa de Óbidos
Spanish-Portuguese Painter, Miniaturist, Etcher, Terracotta Modeler, Silver Worker and Calligrapher
Josefa de Óbidos was the most celebrated female Baroque artists in Portugal who is best known as a painter of still lifes and devotional narratives.
December 21, 2022
Eleanor Antin
American Performance and Installation Artist
Movements and Styles: Performance Art, Installation Art, Assemblage, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Feminist Art, Video Art
Eleanor Antin's prefigures the most important feminist debates of this century and is some of the most arresting and poetic Performance art of the previous.
December 11, 2022
ORLAN
French Artist
ORLAN molds her own body via surgeries provoking questions of beauty, self-image, and consent.
December 6, 2022
Agnes Pelton
American Painter
Visionary artist Agnes Pelton painted in rich and ethereal Symbolism.
December 5, 2022
Florine Stettheimer
American Painter, Theatrical Designer, and Poet
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
December 1, 2022
Patrick Caulfield
British Painter and Printmaker
British modernist Patrick Caulfield's use of clean lines, and areas of pure color was original and influencial.
November 19, 2022
Kazuo Shiraga
Japanese Painter and Performance Artist
Shiraga built his reputation on the back of his involvement with Japan's first avant-garde group, the Gutai Art Association where he establishing himself as a pioneer in "performance painting".
November 14, 2022
Sally Mann
American Photographer
Movements and Styles: Documentary Photography
Primarily working in black-and-white, Sally Mann's photographs explore the emotions that are connected to human experience, from girls navigating their way through adolescence to remains and decomposing bodies. Her most famous and provocative series was photographs of her three young children.
November 2, 2022
Textile Art
From the elaborate garb of royalty to minimalist woven wall hangings, Textile Art has been revered both for its technical expertise and visual appearance.
November 1, 2022
Emily Carr
Canadian Artist
Emily Carr was a Canadian painter and national heroine, known for putting the wild Western Canadian landscape and its indigenous inhabitants on the global art map.
October 30, 2022
Jonathan Eastman Johnson
American Painter
Jonathan Eastman Johnson's paintings addressed the civil war, the abolition of slavery, and scenes of simple rural life in New England.
October 26, 2022
Evelyn De Morgan
English Painter
The Symbolist painter Evelyn De Morgan engaged with political, social and moral issues of 19th century England including prison reform and women's suffrage.
October 25, 2022
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French Painter
The French painter Jean-Baptise Greuze was famous for his genre paintings(colorful vignettes), as well as "innocent" portraits of young women.
October 10, 2022
Leon Kossoff
British Painter
At a time when Conceptualism and Minimalism were dominating the contemporary art scene, Kossoff emerged from within a group of radical figurative painters known as "The School of London".
October 4, 2022
Coco Fusco
Cuban-American Artist
Movements and Styles: Identity Art and Identity Politics, Performance Art, Video Art, Installation Art
Striking and intensely political images, porformances and installtions that make up Coco Fusco's intertwined practice of art and activism.
October 4, 2022
Rockwell Kent
American Painter, Illustrator, Wood engraver, Draughtsman, and Architect
Rockwell Kent was revered mystical landscape paintings that captured the essence of natural wilderness.
October 4, 2022
Suprematism Updated
Suprematism was one of the most radical developments in abstract art that was meant to be superior to all prior, and that would lead to art's barest essentials.
September 30, 2022
Hyman Bloom
American Painter
Movements and Styles: Expressionism
Bloom's paintings explored Judaism, Eastern religion, and the occult, while maintaining a consistent thematic and figurative quality.
September 27, 2022
Amy Sherald
American Painter
Rising to fame after being hand-picked by former First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait, Amy Sherald is today one of the best-known Black American artists.
September 27, 2022
Louise Moillon
French Painter
Movements and Styles: The Baroque
Louise Moillon was one of the most important early 17th century French still life painters.
September 27, 2022
Alfonso Ossorio
Filipino-American Painter and Assemblage Artist
Ossorio, a key player in the Abstract Expressionist and Art Brut movements, is also remembered for his assemblages, or what he called, "Congregations".
September 27, 2022
Superflex
The Danish artist collective Superflex are product designers, artists, community organizers, and project coordinators, working to critique capitalism and commodification of modern life.
September 27, 2022
Nobuyoshi Araki
Japanese Photographer
Movements and Styles: Street Photography, Fashion Photography, Documentary Photography, Modern Photography
One of the most famous and influential Japanese photographers of the post-war period, Araki's work is technically masterful and culturallly rich.
September 2, 2022
Bill Brandt
British Photographer
Bill Brandt was an British photographer and photojournalist known for his high-contrast images of British society and his emboldened nudes.
August 30, 2022
Constructivism Updated
Constructivism flourished in Russia with an entirely new approach, a technical analysis of modern materials to serve modern society.
August 15, 2022
Alice Rahon
French-Mexican Painter and Poet
Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose Surrealistic imagery influenced by the pre-historic, the mythological, and the mystical.
August 8, 2022
Roger de La Fresnaye
French Artist
The French painter La Fresnaye was a leading member of the Salon Cubists.
August 6, 2022
Laura Aguilar
Mexican-American Photographer
Movements and Styles: Queer Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Documentary Photography, LGBT Artists
Photographer Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
August 2, 2022
Ulay
German Artist
Movements and Styles: Performance Art, Modern Photography, Body Art, Collage, Conceptual Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics
Ulay's artworks influenced a generation of Performance, Body, and Installation artists and became foundational to an art-world understanding of the power of live performance in a gallery.
August 1, 2022
Lavinia Fontana
Italian Painter
Fontana was one of the first professional female artists, working on many prestigious commissions in Bologna and Rome.
July 6, 2022
Aegean Art
The islands of the Aegean Sea once produced a wealth of unique, influential, and mysterious artworks and cultural artefacts.
June 28, 2022
French Art
In many ways, the history of France and its culture are interconnected with the country's achievements in the arts.
June 20, 2022
Dieter Roth
German-Swiss Artist
The creative and witty Dieter Roth was a Swiss artist famous for his artist books, prints, sculptures, and works made out of found materials.
May 27, 2022
Pope.L
American Performance Artist
Movements and Styles: Performance Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Public Art, Installation Art
Pope.L's diverse artworks pushed the limits of his body and challenged audiences to reflect on identity and poverty.
May 17, 2022
Carsten Höller
Belgian-German Installation Artist and Sculptor
Carsten Höller's interactive artworks break down the divide between art, personal space, and sensory experience.
May 10, 2022
Carlo Carrà
Italian Painter and Writer
Carlo Carra was a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books on art.
May 6, 2022
Joaquín Clausell
Mexican Painter
Clausell is Mexico's pre-eminent Impressionists focusing on the country's national parks, canals, and seascapes.
April 27, 2022
Rachel Ruysch
Dutch Painter
Ruysch is the celebrated painter of still lifes and flower pieces to emerge during the Dutch Golden Age.
April 26, 2022
Historical African Art
The histories, themes, and styles of African Art are as diverse as the communities and cultures that traverse the continent.
April 25, 2022
Identity Art and Identity Politics Updated
Artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, and women have used their art to stage and display experiences of identity and community.
March 31, 2022
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
French Sculptor
Raymond Duchamp-Villon successfully applyed Cubist principles to sculptural works.
March 30, 2022
Luca Signorelli
Italian Painter
Movements and Styles: High Renaissance
The Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli is most revered for his rendering of figures in action and his unparalleled mastery of the human anatomy.
March 28, 2022
Rufino Tamayo
Mexican Painter
The Mexican painter and printmaker Rufino Tamayo stayed away from pro-revolution political statements preferring to promote ideas of personal freedom and liberty
March 24, 2022
Ford Madox Brown
British Painter
Ford Madox Brown was best-known for his paintings of historical and moral subjects. Although he used vivid colors and realism in his works, Brown was not a member of the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but instead a friend and inspiration of many of its members.
March 20, 2022
Glenn Ligon
American Painter and Printmaker
Glenn Ligon is one of the most astute observers and commentators on race, sexuality, and history in America.
March 19, 2022
Cave Art
Cave Art (or Paleolithic Art) is a broad term for the earliest known art-making in human history.
March 17, 2022
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian Sculptor and Goldsmith
The artist and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti is credited with creating one of the greatest masterpieces in Renaissance Italian art, the east doors for the Baptistery in Florence Cathedral.
March 3, 2022
Tyree Guyton
American Urban Environment Artist, Outsider Artist, Painter, Mixed Media and Installation Artist
Movements and Styles: Installation Art, Neo-Expressionism, Street and Graffiti Art, Public Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art
The American artist Tyree Guyton transformed his devastated Detroit neighborhood into a living art gallery.
March 2, 2022
Abstract Expressionism: Second Generation
After the dominance of Abstract Expressionism a group of artists with disparate styles and approaches pointed the way forward.
February 27, 2022
Jacob Riis
Danish-American Photographer
As a newspaper reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Riis rattled the conscience of Americans with his descriptions - pictorial and written - of New York's slum conditions.
February 26, 2022
Lucas Cranach the Elder
German Painter and Printmaker
Movements and Styles: Northern Renaissance
The most important artist of the Protestant Reformation, Lucas Cranach the Elder court portraiture and woodcuts helped the religion become the major movement within Christianity in sixteenth century Europe.
February 22, 2022
Erich Heckel
German Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor
A founding members of Die Brücke group, Heckel was instrumental in putting Expressionism on the map of twentieth century modernism.
February 6, 2022
Horst P. Horst
German-American Photographer
Horst P. Horst was a pioneer of fashion and portrait photography and a key figure in the development of 20th century photography as a whole.
February 5, 2022
Lawrence Weiner
American Conceptual Artist
Lawrence Weiner was one of the pioneers of text-as-art. His use of language is notable for its lyricism, its inquisitive engagement with the material world around it, and its playful visual forms.
February 5, 2022
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian Goldsmith, Architect, and Sculptor
The architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foundational figures of the Italian Renaissance.
February 2, 2022
Paolo Uccello
Italian Painter and Mosaicist
The Renessance painter Paolo Uccello pioneered visual perspective and blended a mathematical approach to compositions with more decorative qualities.
January 29, 2022
Fernando Botero
Colombian Painter and Sculptor
Painting in a distinct style known as "Boterismo," Botero depicts his subjects as disproportionately round often infusing them with irony or amplifying a political bend.
January 3, 2022
David Bailey
English Photographer
An iconic photographer as well as a filmmaker, David Bailey revolutionized fashion photography and portraiture by introducing a new informality to portraiture and street imagery.
December 31, 2021
Roland Barthes
French Philosopher, Social Theorist, and Semiotician
Movements and Styles: Postmodernism
Roland Barthes is France's best-known essayist and literary critic and his Post-structuralism (or Deconstructionism) ideas have been wide-reaching and have had a profound impact on how we interpret artworks.
December 19, 2021
Maria Izquierdo
Mexican Painter and Watercolorist
Movements and Styles: Feminist Art
The Mexican painter María Izquierdo brought indigenous motifs into her art and gave them new layers of meanings.
December 15, 2021
Henry Ossawa Tanner
American Painter
Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to France and became the first African American man to achieve international acclaim as a painter.
November 28, 2021
Robert Henri
American Painter and Teacher
The leader of the Ashcan School, the painter Robert Henri pave the way for the development of twentieth-century American Realism.
November 28, 2021
Albert Bierstadt
German-American Landscape Painter
Bierstadt is one of America's greatest landscape artists who made epic panoramas of the untamed American West that proved immensely popular with the American public.
November 20, 2021
Menashe Kadishman
Israeli Painter and Sculptor
The sculptor and painter Menashe Kadishman established himself in the movements of Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Neo-Expressionism before focusing on themes of Jewish heritage and familial sacrifice.
November 14, 2021
Monir Farmanfarmaian
Iranian Mosaic Artist
The Iranian mosaic artist Monir Farmanfarmaian - a vibrant, adventurous individual - connected her Persian background with avant-garde postmodernism.
November 14, 2021
Cimabue
Italian Painter and Mosaicist
The Painter and Mosaicist Cimabue took the lead role in the transition from the medieval/Byzantine to the modern era of Italian art.
November 1, 2021
Robert Longo
American Photographer, Sculptor, Filmmaker, and Musician
With his torqued figures in suits and dresses caught as if mid-fall, Robert Longo's art unpacked popular imagery for contemporary audiences.
October 31, 2021
Paul Cadmus
American Painter, Printmaker, and Photographer
Paul Cadmus was a pioneer of Queer Art who with an incisive, satirical gaze, depicted scenes from modern American life in all of its beautiful and grotesque details.
October 31, 2021
Matthias Grünewald
German Renaissance Painter
Movements and Styles: Northern Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance artist Matthias Grünewald painted the mystical spiritual style of late medieval, religious European art.
October 23, 2021
Ivan Albright
American Painter
American Realist artist Ivan Albright focused his detailed paintings on mortality and the fragility of human life.
October 21, 2021
Antoni Tàpies
Spanish Mixed Media Artist
Tàpies created thick surfaces built up from harsh matterials unearthing of primal forms, becoming a major influence on modern painting.
October 21, 2021
Alan Sonfist
American Land Artist
The Environmental artist Alan Sonfist has explored issues of ecological deterioration, preservation, and what would later be understood as "climate change" via methods of the naturalist, historian, and urban planner.
October 14, 2021
Correggio
Italian Renaissance Painter
Correggio, a preeminent Renaissance painter, created powerful pictorial drama that anticipated the emergence of the Baroque and Rococo styles.
October 9, 2021
Tania Bruguera
Cuban Artist and Political Activist
Movements and Styles: Installation Art, Performance Art, Body Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Institutional Critique, Relational Aesthetics
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera creates challenging performative works, as well as community outreach programs that are central to contemporary political art.
October 7, 2021
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Bulgarian-American and French-Moroccan Sculptors, Photographers, and Conceptual Artists
Christo and Jeanne-Claude large-scale installations stand out as some of the greatest achievements in site-specific art.
September 26, 2021
Jacques Villon
French Painter, Illustrator, and Printmaker
Jacques Villon excelled Belle Époque printmaking before advancing the rise of Cubism.
September 23, 2021
Antonio Canova
Italian Sculptor
Antonio Canova drew inspiration from Greek and Roman art to become the leading and iconic sculptors of Neoclassicism.
September 21, 2021
Public Art
Whether a statue in a town square or a rough guerrilla-style marking Public Art engages with audiences outside of galleries and museums.
September 18, 2021
Wifredo Lam
Cuban Painter, Sculptor, and Printmaker
The Cuban artist Wifredo Lam was a trailblazer who helped open up mid-century modern art to Black historical awareness+.
September 17, 2021
Christian Boltanski
French Sculptor, Photographer, Painter, and Film Maker
Boltanski focus on memory, the holocaust, mortality, and mourning made him a leader within the Conceptual Art and Post-Minimalism movements.
September 8, 2021
Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian Painter
Movements and Styles: Early Renaissance
Fra Filippo Lippi, one of the great masters of the Early Renaissance, combined traditions of devotional art and humanist influences.
September 6, 2021
Vito Acconci
American Artist and Architect
Movements and Styles: Performance Art, Body Art, Video Art, Conceptual Art, Installation Art, Modern Architecture
Vito Acconci boundary-pushing performances used powerful language, audience engagement, and sex and eroticism to create innovative viewing situations.
September 6, 2021
British Impressionism
The movement of Impressionism, which originated in France, was concerned with capturing the momentary impression made by a visual scene on the artist's eye. It took hold in Britain both through continental influences and independent lines of development, from J.M.W. Turner's expressive seascapes to the delicate night scenes of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler's work of the 1860s-80s had a profound impact on a younger generation of painters such as Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer, who were involved in creating the defining networks and events of British Impressionism, including the New English Art Club and the London Impressionists exhibition, towards the end of the 1880s. Meanwhile, another group of Whistler's acolytes in Scotland, the Glasgow Boys, developed a distinctive Impressionist-influenced style equally indebted to the Naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage. While all this was happening, British artists were also developing vital and sustaining creative relationships with French contemporaries and masters, such as Sickert with Degas, which also fed into the evolution of British Impressionism.
September 5, 2021
Gala Dalí
Russian-Spanish Art Patron and Muse
Movements and Styles: Surrealism
A muse to no fewer than three of is key members - Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí - Gala Dalí grew into an astute critic and uncompromising businesswoman.
August 24, 2021
Anton Raphael Mengs
German Painter
Mengs was regarded by many in his day as Europe's most important painter and he was a strong advocate of formal arts education and national art academies with many of his former pupils going on to achieve prominent positions in Academies of Europe.
August 23, 2021
Hieronymus Bosch Updated
Dutch Painter and Draughtsman
Bosch is the visionary painter most celebrated for his detail-drenched and narrative renditions.
August 23, 2021
American Realism
American Realism is a tendency that has traveled the timeline of American history and through its various manifestations such as Hudson River School, Ashcan School, Regionalism, and Photorealism, having shaped America's identity as a nation.
August 8, 2021
Art for Art's Sake Updated
Definition of Art for Art's Sake idea and uses in the history of visual art.
July 30, 2021
Louis Aragon
French Poet and Writer
Louis Aragon was a French poet and writer for several revolutionary and avant-garde journals. He was involved with Dada in Paris before helping found Surrealism in 1924.
July 25, 2021
Richard Morris Hunt
American Architect
Richard Morris Hunt is widely credited with transforming American architectural design and became one of the most recognized architects in America.
July 14, 2021
LS Lowry
English Painter
Movements and Styles: Existentialism in Modern Art
Lowry is perhaps England's most instantly recognizable painter whose signature "matchstick men" go about their business within industrial backgrounds.
July 9, 2021
Peter Halley
American Abstract Artist
Peter Halley is an abstract artist known for his geometric paintings with the use of intense day-glo colors.
June 29, 2021
Stéphane Mallarmé
French Poet and Art Critic
Stéphane Mallarmé is considered one of the greatest French poets of the later nineteenth century. He was also a champion of many of the avant-garde artists of the time, including the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
June 25, 2021
Albert C. Barnes
American Doctor and Art Collector, Educator, and Writer
Movements and Styles: Impressionism, Modernism and Modern Art, Post-Impressionism, Historical African Art
The pharmacy mogul Albert Barnes was a philanthropic art collector who built the world famous Barnes Foundation of modern art.
June 24, 2021
Raoul Hausmann
Austrian Sculptor, Photographer, and Writer
One of the founders of Berlin Dada, Hausmann is credited with formulating the technique of photomontage with his companion Hannah Höch.
June 21, 2021