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06.07.1919–10.03.1999
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999) was an Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, and visual artist of Quechua descent. Born in Quito and died in Baltimore, he was known for murals, portraits, and symbolic imagery reflecting 20th-century Latin American culture. He studied under José Clemente Orozco.25.04.1928–05.07.2011
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly (1928–2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and visual artist. Born in Lexington, USA, he worked primarily in abstraction and postmodernism, also engaging in drawing, photography, printmaking, and architectural drafting.
12.03.1908–25.01.1970
Rita Angus
Rita Angus (born Henrietta Catherine Angus) was a New Zealand artist born on March 12, 1908, in Hastings. Known for portraits and landscapes, she worked mainly in oil and watercolor. She passed away on January 25, 1970, in Wellington.
AI interpretation31.12.1869–03.11.1954
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869–1954) was a French artist and a leading figure of Fauvism and Modernism. His work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, including landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and découpages. He was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis and died in Nice.
AI interpretation1420–26.08.1506
Sesshū Tōyō
Sesshū Tōyō (Japanese: 雪舟, 1420 – August 26, 1506) was a distinguished Japanese artist and Zen monk during the Muromachi period. According to records, he belonged to the Oda clan (小田). His birth name remains unknown. The name “Sesshū” is an artistic pseudonym he adopted in maturity, while “Tōyō” (Japanese: 等楊) is his monastic name (imina), received at…
1983–present
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, is an artist working in the United States. Through her collages and photo transfers, she explores cultural connections between Nigeria and America.
29.12.1903–06.02.1962
Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari (1903–1962) was a leading Brazilian artist of the 20th century, known for his work in painting and drawing within the modernist movement. Among his notable works are "Coffee Agricultural Worker" and "Retirantes."
27.10.1923–15.09.1997
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist and representative of Pop Art. Born in Manhattan, New York, in 1923, he worked as a painter, sculptor, designer, and university instructor. He died in Manhattan on September 15, 1997.
07.02.1912–29.06.1981
Russell Drysdale
Russell Drysdale (1912–1981) was an Australian artist born in Bognor Regis, known for works such as Sofala, The Drover's Wife, and The Cricketers. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize in 1947 and represented Australia at the 1954 Venice Biennale.
AI interpretation12.12.1863–23.01.1944
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and draftsman associated with Symbolism and Expressionism. Born in Ådalsbruk, he is known for works such as "The Scream" and "Death and Child." His art explores themes of death, loneliness, and the desire for life.
17.09.1915–09.06.2011
M. F. Husain
M. F. Husain (1915–2011) was an Indian artist and a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. He was a key figure in Indian modernism in the 1940s, known for his vivid paintings in a modified Cubist style.03.05.1944–16.06.2011
Twins Seven Seven
Twins Seven Seven, born May 3, 1944 in Ogidi, Nigeria, was a multidisciplinary artist known for painting, sculpture, textile art, music, acting, and writing. He began his artistic career at the Mbari Mbayo workshop in Osogbo in 1964 and became a leading figure of the Osogbo School.
03.10.1875–15.08.1964
Dr. Atl
Dr. Atl was the pseudonym of Gerardo Murillo, a Mexican writer, artist, volcanologist, and philosopher. Born in Guadalajara in 1875, he created over 11,000 drawings and 1,000 oil landscapes, notably documenting the Parícutin volcano. He died in Mexico City in 1964.
AI interpretation10.07.1834–17.07.1903
James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born on July 10, 1834, in Lowell, USA. He was an artist skilled in various visual art forms, including portrait painting, etching, and lithography. Whistler is recognized as a notable representative of tonalism, a movement that foreshadowed Impressionism and Symbolism. His work encompassed genres such as portraiture,…01.08.1919–27.05.1987
Colin McCahon
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was a New Zealand artist whose 45-year career encompassed landscape, figurative art, abstraction, and text overlay. In the mid-20th century, he contributed to introducing modernism in New Zealand art alongside Toss Woollaston and Rita Angus.
AI interpretation12.07.1884–24.01.1920
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo (Jephté) Clemente Modigliani was born on July 12, 1884, in Livorno, Kingdom of Italy. He was a painter, sculptor, and draftsman, recognized as one of the most prominent representatives of Expressionism in the early 20th century. Modigliani's work belongs to the art of the modernist era. In painting and graphic arts, he worked across various genres…
AI interpretation0345–0406
Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi was a Chinese painter and poet of the Eastern Jin period, born in 345 in Wuxi and died in 406 in Nanjing. He is known for his work "Admonitions Scroll."
1984–present
Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo, born Thomas Amoako Boafo in 1984 in Accra, Ghana, is a contemporary Ghanaian artist closely connected to his homeland. Raised in the Oso district of Greater Accra, his work reflects his cultural roots.
05.06.1923–14.01.2005
Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) was a Venezuelan artist and sculptor renowned as a leading figure in kinetic art and Op Art in South America and Europe. Born in Ciudad Bolívar, he lived and worked in France, where he passed away in Paris.
12.07.1917–16.01.2009
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) was an American artist and cultural figure, a representative of realism. Born and died in Chadds Ford Township, USA. He worked in landscape, portrait, and genre painting. Honorary foreign member of the USSR Academy of Arts, son of an artist.
10.05.1920–11.02.1999
John Brack
John Brack (1920–1999) was an Australian artist born in South Melbourne and died in Melbourne. He was a member of the Antipodeans art group. His notable works include "Collins St., 5 pm" and "The Bar." His art reflected key aspects of his era.
AI interpretation1445–1510
Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli was born in 1445 in Florence, where he lived his entire life and died in 1510. He is considered an outstanding master of the early Italian Renaissance and a representative of the Florentine school of painting during the Quattrocento period, which developed under the patronage of the Medici family. In his works, Botticelli developed a…
AI interpretation06.04.1470–07.01.1524