Painters & Visual Artists Codexery

A source-cited reference to painters & visual artists

Painters & Visual Artists (20)

• Tyeb Mehta — Indian modernist whose triptych Celebration sparked the Indian art boom.
• Tô Ngọc Vân — Vietnamese painter who taught resistance art and died at Điện Biên Phủ.
• Uche Okeke — Seminal Nigerian modernist artist and theorist.
• Umberto Boccioni — Italian Futurist painter and sculptor who theorized dynamism and deconstructed solid mass.
• Valentin Serov — Russian painter widely regarded as the leading portraitist of his generation.
• Vasily Vereshchagin — Russian war painter and traveller who showed the horrors of battle to promote peace.
• Viktor Vasnetsov — Russian painter of folklore, myth and history, a founding figure of the Russian Revivalist style.
• Vito Acconci — Installation and performance artist.
• Wen Zhengming — Ming dynasty painter, calligrapher, and poet.
• Whang-od — Last and oldest mambabatok of the Kalinga people.
• William Eggleston — American photographer who elevated color photography as fine art.
• William Holman Hunt — English painter and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
• Winslow Homer — American landscape painter and watercolorist.
• Wu Daozi — Tang dynasty painter whose works mark the peak of court painting.
• Xue Ji — Tang calligrapher, painter, and chancellor forced to commit suicide over an alleged plot.
• Yan Zhenqing — Tang calligrapher, general, and loyal governor.
• Yousuf Karsh — Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer of the 20th century.
• Zhang Leping — Chinese comic artist who created the iconic Sanmao manhua.
• Zhao Mengfu — Yuan dynasty calligrapher, painter, and scholar.
• Darius Cobb — Nineteenth-century Boston painter of portraits, landscapes and religious and historical scenes.

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