27.11.1934–present
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08.05.1903–17.05.1980
Lippy Lipshitz
Lippy Lipshitz (1903–1980) was born in Plungė and grew up in Cape Town, where his mother brought him at the age of five. He studied under Antoine Bourdelle in Paris, held his first solo exhibition in Cape Town in 1932 and defended modernism against local conservatives. He taught at the Michaelis School, and in 1978 he moved to Israel.
03.06.1835–14.07.1903
Manuel Antonio Caro
Manuel Antonio Caro (1835–1903) was born in Ancud into a wealthy family and was the first Chilean to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Back home, he opened a studio in Valparaíso and painted portraits, scenes of popular life and historical subjects. His best-known picture is “The Zamacueca” (1873), a scene of a folk dance.1957–present
Ouattara Watts
Ouattara Watts was born in Abidjan, the son of a doctor who also practised traditional healing. At nineteen he went to study in Paris, and in January 1988, at an opening there, he met Jean-Michel Basquiat and soon moved to New York. His large abstract canvases with signs, numbers and photographs were shown at the 1993 Venice Biennale, Documenta 11 and the Whitney Biennial.06.10.1948–present
Godfrey Blow
Godfrey Blow was born in Lincolnshire, moved to Western Australia in 1982 and has lived since then in Kalamunda, near Perth. He paints the dry, rocky landscape around his home, spending several months on a single picture. In 2002 he founded the Perth Stuckists, and his work is held by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and other collections.24.04.1931–present
Bridget Riley
In 1959 Bridget Riley copied Seurat’s “The Bridge at Courbevoie” from a book illustration, and the copy still hangs in her studio. Two years later she was painting black-and-white pictures that, by report, made viewers seasick. In 1968 she became the first British painter, and the first woman, to win the International Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.
25.01.1713–23.01.1791
Kang Sehwang
Kang Sehwang (1713–1791) spent thirty years in Ansan, away from office, and took up a government post only after the age of sixty. He painted, practised calligraphy, left notes on art, taught the young Kim Hongdo and visited Beijing in 1784. Korean literati painters regard him as one of the founders of muninhwa.19.12.1919–15.01.2007
Isaac Fanous
Isaac Fanous trained as an applied artist in Cairo, won a two-year scholarship at the Louvre in the mid-1960s and studied icon painting in France under Léonid Ouspensky. Out of this grew the style known as Neo-Coptic: symmetrical, restrained, built on the older Coptic tradition. Fanous painted churches in Egypt, worked in London and headed the Coptic art department at the Institute of Coptic Studies.23.07.1914–22.07.1961
Sérvulo Gutiérrez
Sérvulo Gutiérrez (1914–1961) grew up in Ica in a family of craftsmen and restorers, and came to painting by way of boxing: he was national bantamweight champion of Peru. He studied under Emilio Pettoruti in Buenos Aires and lived in Paris in 1938–1940. In the 1940s his paintings had clean outlines; later they turned harsh in colour and brushwork, and in his last years he painted St Rose of Lima and the Lord of Luren.1935–10.07.2024
Alex Janvier
Alex Janvier (1935–2024) was born on the Le Goff Reserve near Cold Lake in Alberta, of Dene Suline and Saulteaux descent, and was sent to an Indian residential school at the age of eight. He graduated from an art college in Calgary and was one of the first First Nations artists in Canada to train at a professional art school. His best-known work is the dome painting Morning Star at the Canadian Museum of History.
20.04.1950–present
George Baloghy
George Baloghy (born in Budapest in 1950) came to New Zealand as a child after the events of 1956 and graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. Since 1978 he has held about thirty solo exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia. He paints in oil on canvas: views of Auckland and Wellington, and in recent years retellings of famous New Zealand paintings.
13.12.1923–06.02.2012
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) abandoned law studies in Barcelona for painting and became one of the leading Catalan artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He mixed marble dust and clay into his paint, brought rope, rags and scraps of paper into his pictures, and later parts of furniture. He founded the group Dau al Set, won the Rubens Prize, the Wolf Prize and the Velázquez Prize, and established a foundation in Barcelona that bears his name.
10.08.1932–25.03.2020
Edman Ayvazyan
Edman Ayvazyan (1932–2020) grew up in an Armenian family in Tehran, studied in Rome and later lived in London. He painted the interiors of Armenian churches, illustrated Hovhannes Tumanyan, painted portraits and seascapes, and made a band of Arabic calligraphy for the mosque at the Riyadh airport. His exhibitions were held in Iran, Armenia, Britain and the United States.1949–present
Norman Catherine
Norman Catherine (born 1949) began exhibiting at twenty: in 1969 the Herbert Evans Gallery in Johannesburg showed his oil paintings on wood, bone and wire. From 1973 he worked with Walter Battiss on the imaginary “Fook Island”, for which he devised a language, a currency and stamps. His rough-edged, grotesque creatures in bright cartoon colours are in the collections of MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum.
1636–1710
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao (1636–1710) worked in Cusco for Bishop Manuel de Mollinedo and painted enormous canvases for the city’s cathedral and monasteries. For a long time he was taken for a Spanish friar, until contracts for commissions turned up a name with a distinctly Quechua root. His works include a series on the life of Saint Francis and the “Martyrdom of Saint Laurence”, with angels in the manner of Murillo.22.05.1948–present
Tomás Sánchez
Tomás Sánchez (born 1948) studied in Havana, taught printmaking for five years at the National Art School, and in 1980 won first prize at the Joan Miró International Drawing Prize for “Desde las aguas blancas”. This opened the way beyond Cuba: solo exhibitions followed in Barcelona, Havana, Fort Lauderdale and Monterrey. He is known above all for his landscapes.1954–present
Yilpi Adamson
Imiyari “Yilpi” Adamson (born 1954) grew up at the Ernabella mission in the northwest of South Australia and began there with batik. She wove baskets from tjanpi, desert grass, and later took up painting; her most successful works are those about her childhood at Ernabella in the 1950s. Her work is in museums in Australia and Scotland.
25.05.1959–present
Vladimír Franz
Vladimír Franz (born 1959) trained as a lawyer but never practised: he has written music for more than 150 plays, won the Alfréd Radok Award for theatre six times, and also paints. Since 1991 he has taught at the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2013 he stood for president of the Czech Republic and came fifth.?–?
Shaykhi
Shaykhi worked in Tabriz at the court of the Aq Qoyunlu rulers in the last quarter of the 15th century, and his name appears under the miniatures of a single manuscript: the Khamsa of Nizami with a colophon dated 1481. He came from Herat but painted differently from the Herat school of Bihzad, with dense greenery and sharp colours. No dates of his life survive.06.04.1913–11.03.2004
Gabriel de Jongh
Gabriel de Jongh (1913–2004) was born in Amsterdam and grew up near Cape Town, where his landscape-painter father moved the family when the boy was eight. He worked at the printing house of The Cape Times and at the easel at once, and in 1944 went to Normandy as a war artist. Later he painted the landscapes of the Western Cape in oils, and in 1981 opened a gallery in Stellenbosch in his father’s memory.
29.08.1809–16.12.1885
Ramón Torres Méndez
Ramón Torres Méndez (1809–1885) began with portraits on ivory sawn from billiard balls and became known for his drawings of everyday life in New Granada: the series “Costumbres neogranadinas” appeared as lithographs in Bogotá in 1851. He was self-taught, fought in the war with Venezuela, ran a studio in Bogotá and taught.
08.1946–present
José Rodríguez Fuster
José Fuster (born 1946) turned the fishing village of Jaimanitas on the outskirts of Havana into a vast open-air museum: he decorated more than eighty houses with mosaics and ceramics and built a chess park and a theatre. He grew up in Caibarién in a working-class family, studied in Havana from 1963, and worked as a ceramicist, painter and graphic artist. He paid for the project from the sale of his own paintings and ceramics.
20.07.1883–04.06.1969
Elizabeth Wallwork
Elizabeth Wallwork (née Donaldson) studied in Manchester and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and at the end of 1910 left with her husband, a fellow artist, for New Zealand. In Christchurch she became one of the country's foremost exponents of pastel portraiture, also painted in oil, and showed her work at exhibitions in London and Dunedin. Her work is held by Te Papa Tongarewa and the Christchurch Art Gallery.
31.01.1860–07.04.1933