Visual Artists Codexery

A source-cited reference to visual artists

Visual Artists (27)

• Gerhard Richter — The most important contemporary German artist
• Giorgio Vasari — Italian Renaissance painter, architect, and biographer who wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and…
• Gustave Courbet — French painter who led the Realism movement.
• Henri Cartier-Bresson — Master of the decisive moment
• Henri Matisse — French visual artist known for colour and draughtsmanship, a leading Fauve and modern art figure.
• Henry Moore — English sculptor of semi-abstract bronze figures and drawings.
• Hiroshige — Last great master of ukiyo-e, famed for his poetic landscapes.
• Hokusai — Japanese ukiyo-e master of the Edo period, creator of The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
• James McNeill Whistler — American painter and printmaker known for 'art for art's sake' and iconic works like Whistler's Mother.
• Joan Miró — Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist known for Surrealist works and childlike re-creation of the subconscious.
• John Constable — English landscape painter of the Romantic tradition
• Man Ray — American-born, French-naturalized artist known for Dada, Surrealism, and rayographs.
• Mark Rothko — Latvian-born American abstract painter best known for his color field paintings.
• Paul Klee — Swiss-born German artist known for his individual style and color theory
• Piet Mondrian — Pioneer of abstract art and co-founder of De Stijl.
• Rembrandt — Dutch Golden Age master of light, shadow, and human emotion.
• Giotto — Italian painter and architect from Florence, known for his frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel and as a key figure of the…
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — French Post-Impressionist painter of Parisian nightlife and brothels.
• Henri Rousseau — French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.
• Ilya Repin — Ukrainian-born Russian painter, renowned 19th-century artist
• J. M. W. Turner — English Romantic painter who elevated landscape painting.
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — French Neoclassical painter whose portraits are recognized as his greatest legacy.
• John Singer Sargent — American expatriate portrait painter of Belle Époque and Edwardian luxury.
• Marcel Duchamp — French artist who created readymades as an antidote to retinal art.
• Peter Paul Rubens — Flemish artist and diplomat, the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition.
• Phidias — Ancient Greek sculptor of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
• John Cage — American composer who redefined music through chance and silence.

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