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At the forefront of the Studio Glass Movement since the 1960s, Dale Chihuly has catapulted glasswork from its origins in craft toward recognition as fine art.

Paraguayan painter and textile artist Feliciano Centurión was celebrated for his vibrant, emotionally resonant works that challenged traditional gender roles and embraced queer identity.

Theosophy is an occult belief system that has been extremely influential for a significant number of modern artists.

Camera obscura is a way to project an image on a 2-dimensional surface that can be traced by the human hand - a device used by artists throughout history.

Allen Jones was on the frontline of the British Pop Art movement and is famous for fetishistic sculptures of women that doubled as furniture items.

Max Bill helped to define Concrete Art and excelled in graphic and commercial design.

Daniel Libeskind major architectural projects rethink (or deconstruct) the proportional geometric orthodoxies associated with earlier approaches to architecture.

Los Angeles-born Mark Bradford is an acclaimed visual artist known for his innovative use of mixed media and his engagement with social and political issues.

Robert Venturi was one of the most influential figures in late 20th-century architecture.

Bayer was one of the most influential commercial artists of the twentieth century, and one of the leading Bauhaus figures.

Alison Knowles's art focuses on chance-based performances and also famous for food-themed pieces that have had an enormous and enduring influence.

Marianne Brandt was a German designer who studied at the Bauhaus and later taught its metal workshop. Her designs for household objects are considered the precursor to modern industrial design. She also created photomontages that explored the role of women in the complicated society of Weimar Germany.

Known for his designs as much as for his paintings, Duncan Grant was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.

American Folk Art includes handmade, often self-taught artistic creations that reflect cultural heritage, everyday life, and regional influences.

Red Grooms created playful sculptures and is well known as a pioneer of interactive Installation Art.

Luis Barragán is Mexico's most celebrated Modern architect that combined the International Style with influences drawn from traditional Mediterranean and Mexican sources.

Ancient Egyptian art has been very influencial on the creative spirit of all subsequent civilizations across Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Limbourg Brothers were master illuminators who revolutionized the art of Northern European manuscript painting in the fifteenth century.

Anatoly Zverev was the most innovative Russian artist of the second half of the 20th century who battled against the malign forces of Soviet state control.

The Australian Sidney Nolan drew on the legacies of European modernism, moving through Post-Impressionism, and Surrealism, to form his own inimitable take on his country's topography and folklore.

Painter Audrey Flack powerfully addressed the object world using the copying, tracing, and enlarging methods associated with the aesthetics of Photorealism.

Taiwanese-born artist Tehching Hsieh's long-term and grueling performances focused on the mere act of living as a form of art.

Carmen Herrera created powerful Concrete, Op, and Hard-Edged abstractions, while amazingly selling her first piece at age 89.

Marden bases his art upon a wide range of experiences, often distilling his memories to a single key moment of inspiration.

Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn - a body-suit with a very large projecting horn.

Perugino masterful paintings featured powerful compositions, brilliant colors, and an understated depiction of figures.

Poussin practiced classical treatment of scenes from the Bible, history, and mythology in his Baroque paintings.

Vija Celmins's paintings of oceans, spider webs, views of the night sky, warplanes, and everyday household objects entice viewers to appreciate both the wonder and meaning of their surrenoundings.

Peter Hujar is now widely acclaimed for his black and white portraits of New York's bohemian East Village community, taken between the late 1960s and early 1980s. While an overview of his work reveals Hujar's mastery of other photographic genres - notably animal portraiture, and nocturnal street-photography - it was for his ability to tease out the psychological vulnerability of his sitters that set him apart from his contemporaries. Given that they were gay men whose lives were often cut short by the 1980s AIDS epidemic, many critics and historians focus on differences between Hujar's humanist outlook and the more formal/studio-based style of Robert Mapplethorpe. Unlike Mapplethorpe, Hujar refused to court publicity and remained wholly indifferent to the commercial demands of the New York art market. Admired by fellow artists for staying true to his artistic convictions, Hujar is also celebrated for a darkroom prowess that lends his images a truly rarefied print quality.

Chaïm Soutine's innovative palette and visible brushwork translated his inner torment into images of the familiar.

Over a short but prolific career, Čiurlionis created a powerful body of work including musical compositions and abstract and semi-abstract paintings.

Vermeer's painting career was devoted to exploring tender moments of everyday life, documenting private spaces and environments.

August Macke was a German painter and a leader in the Expressionist group The Blue Rider. A close friend of Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Robert Delaunay, Macke's paintings were more Post-Impressionist and Fauvist in style, but were very expressive in terms of color and mood.

Child Art - that is, art produced by children - only started to attract the serious attention of artists and academics in the late nineteenth century.

The legendary Ivan Aivazovsky's maritime subjects are powerful, iconic, and romantic depictions of the late Russian Empire naval prowesses.

Artist Yinka Shonibare examines contemporary identity through the loaded and complex lens of post-colonialism.

Postcolonial artists navigate issues of national and cultural identity in the wake of colonialism's influence.

Michael Andrews weaved complex psychological and environmental themes into haunting portraits and expansive landscapes.

North of the European Alps an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement spread that was influenced by the Italian Renaissance's art and ideas.

Frank Stella transformed the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism into works that offered dynamism, tactility, and scale.

Alma Thomas made a unique and vital contribution to the development of mid-to-late 20th century American abstraction.

The art of Indigenous North, Central, and South American cultures spans millennia and served various spiritual and social functions.

Soto was a Venezuelan Op and Kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter who created penetrables - interactive sculptures which consist of thin, dangling tubes.

Hambling earned her praises for vivid portraits; sublime land and seascapes; and a number of enigmatic memorial sculptures.

Deconstructivist architecture defined the cutting-edge in late-20th - early-21st century design with spectacular asymmetrical exteriors.

Alÿs's famous performances included walking a mechanical dog down city roads or pushing a block of ice through on a hot city day highlight his uniquely imaginative approach to art.

Georges de La Tour's brooding candlelit scenes are incredible highlights of the Baroque period.

James Luna disassembled and challenged myths about Native American cultures.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is one of the most influential contemporary Native American artists, and one of the first Native American women to gain a foothold in the contemporary artworld.

Niemeyer has been championed as one of the greatest contributors to the development of modern architecture - particularly in building Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.

Social Practice Art projects range widely but share a commitment to making positive social contributions while placing people at the core.

Fluxus was described as a fusion of gags, games, Vaudeville, Cage, and Duchamp. Like the Futurists and Dadaists before them, fought the authority of museums.

Paula Rego exposes fantasy and reality, strength and suppression, and the personal and the political in her powerful paintings.

Elizabeth Catlett confronted the themes of race, gender, and class inequalities through stylish bronze, wooden, and terracotta sculptures.

Memento Mori art works often remind the viewer of their own mortality, and Vanitas still-life works contain symbols of death.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most important Indigenous artists known for fabric art and canvas paintings.

John Trumbull is mostly celebrated today for his portraits and history paintings of the leaders and events connected with the American Revolution.

Augusta Savage was a sculptor, educator, activist, and patron of the arts, who played a significant role during the Harlem Renaissance.

I.M. Pei is a very well-known Chinese-American architect, and disciple of Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Breuer. His iconic works include Boston's JFK Library, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Medieval art reflected the heritage of the Roman Empire, the early Christian church, and the cultures of Northern Europe.

The idea "Society of the Spectacle" aimed to shatter materialistic illusions using art such as confrontational performances and even psycho-geographical walks.

Harris is one of Canada's most important and influential landscape artists and principal figure in the Group of Seven.

The Black Arts Movement combined themes of revolutionary politics with the works of Black artists seeking to express empowerment, pride, and liberation.

Ozenfant was a French painter and writer who is widely regarded for his innovative approaches to Cubism and being the co-founder of Purism.

Duncanson was a major African-American landscape artist who became a torchbearer for future generations.

Calatrava built on a series of attention-grabbing, neo-futuristic buildings and asymmetrical bridges that grace numerous locations across the globe.

Combining skills as a photographer with a deep interest in visual culture and history, Thomas provided a new take on familiar imagery, such as a corporate logo.

Bob Thompson, in an intensely productive period, defied the standards for pure abstraction by creating vividly colored, phantastical paintings.

Waring is one of the foremost Black female artists of the first half of the twentieth century American art.

Dan Graham works in many media, and is best known for his walk-in pavilions, which are steel and glass sculptures that create interactive environments.

Joan Mitchell is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and multi-paneled paintings.

Stuart was one of America's first great portraitists and painted the new republic's first six presidents, as well as many other important public figures.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Elle Pérez (they/them) uses photography to document their gender non-conforming and racial minority communities.

Talbot was a British inventor who created the calotype process, a pioneering invention in early photography. Talbot also furthered the use of photography as an artistic medium.

Carrie Mae Weems' art and photography represents authentic African American experience and questions identity stereotypes.

The modern architect Philip Johnson developed the International Style and left his mark on 20th century cityscapes.

Working in fashion, performance, and fine art, Nick Cave explores both his identity as a gay black man, and the wider social context of marginalised peoples of the world.

The relationship between art and "insanity" (a term now considered out-of-date) has changed over time in the minds of artists, critics, medical professionals.

Borromini was one of the most innovative architects of the seventeenth century, and helped define the Roman Baroque style.

Having swapped Shanghai for Paris, Zao Wou-Ki's became one of the most important and dynamic artists on the world stage.

A "union of the senses”, synesthesia refers to the experience of experiencingone sense through another: it might involve seeing sound, hearing music, or smelling color

Auguste Rodin achieved the reputation of the father of modern sculpture with his iconic and powerful bronze portraits.

Romney was one of the most popular British portrait painters of the late eighteenth century.

The New York-based art collective Gran Fury used their savviness in media, art, and design to create public artworks that responded to the AIDS crisis.

Utamaro emerged as one of the greatest masters of late eighteenth-century Japanese art and helped define the golden age of the woodblock printing technique.

Burchfield depicted scenes of the natural world and the urban environment that he brought to life through shifting weather patterns, light, and even sound.

One of the first American artists to explore abstract painting, John Marin created a gestural and fractured style that captured conflicting forces of urban and natural environments through his impactful impressions of the skyscrapers and bridges of Manhattan, and the sea, sky, and mountains of New England. An acknowledged influence on the New York School, his standing as a modernist reached its highpoint in the mid-1940s when a Look magazine poll declared him: “America’s Artist No. 1.”. Although he remains perhaps best known for his watercolors, in his later career Marin showed his versatility by crossing over effortlessly into oil painting.

The Early Renaissance master Ghirlandaio is known for his stylish, detailed frescos and aristocratic portraits.

Punk was a late 1970s cultural movement that represented a near-complete reset for the way art, music, film, journalism, and style was made and understood.

Conceptual artists prized ideas over the art-making artistic processes - ideas that manifested themselves in documents, installations, or various ephemera.

Pipilotti Rist has garnered international acclaim for her immersive multi-channel and spatial video installations.

Vieira da Silva blurred the lines between abstraction and representation and became one of the most important modern Portuguese artists.

The Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.

Controversial, empowering, and hugely influential to the present day, abstraction allowed artists to explore new ways of expressing themselves.

Hosmer was one of the leading American sculptors working in the Neoclassical style.

A master of Italian Mannerist sculpture, Giambologna is most loved for his dynamic marble portraits, and exquisite bronze statuettes.

Manuel Felguérez was the first and important Mexican artist to broach the possibilities of geometric and gestural abstraction.

Hannah Ryggen producing modernist textile murals that told stories of love, life, war, death, and hope in a potent visual language.

The intensity of Caravaggio's dramaticly lit paintings was matched only by his tempestuous lifestyle.

Jean-René, better known simply as JR, is a master of contemporary graffiti and street art.