[{"n": "Gerhard Richter", "u": "/e/visual-artists/gerhard-richter/", "s": "The most important contemporary German artist"}, {"n": "Giorgio Vasari", "u": "/e/visual-artists/giorgio-vasari/", "s": "Italian Renaissance painter, architect, and biographer who wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpto"}, {"n": "Gustave Courbet", "u": "/e/visual-artists/gustave-courbet/", "s": "French painter who led the Realism movement."}, {"n": "Henri Cartier-Bresson", "u": "/e/visual-artists/henri-cartier-bresson/", "s": "Master of the decisive moment"}, {"n": "Henri Matisse", "u": "/e/visual-artists/henri-matisse/", "s": "French visual artist known for colour and draughtsmanship, a leading Fauve and modern art figure."}, {"n": "Henry Moore", "u": "/e/visual-artists/henry-moore/", "s": "English sculptor of semi-abstract bronze figures and drawings."}, {"n": "Hiroshige", "u": "/e/visual-artists/hiroshige/", "s": "Last great master of ukiyo-e, famed for his poetic landscapes."}, {"n": "Hokusai", "u": "/e/visual-artists/hokusai/", "s": "Japanese ukiyo-e master of the Edo period, creator of The Great Wave off Kanagawa."}, {"n": "James McNeill Whistler", "u": "/e/visual-artists/james-mcneill-whistler/", "s": "American painter and printmaker known for 'art for art's sake' and iconic works like Whistler's Mother."}, {"n": "Joan Miró", "u": "/e/visual-artists/joan-mir/", "s": "Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist known for Surrealist works and childlike re-creation of the subconsc"}, {"n": "John Constable", "u": "/e/visual-artists/john-constable/", "s": "English landscape painter of the Romantic tradition"}, {"n": "Man Ray", "u": "/e/visual-artists/man-ray/", "s": "American-born, French-naturalized artist known for Dada, Surrealism, and rayographs."}, {"n": "Mark Rothko", "u": "/e/visual-artists/mark-rothko/", "s": "Artist of the fourteen paintings in the Rothko Chapel, Houston."}, {"n": "Paul Klee", "u": "/e/visual-artists/paul-klee/", "s": "Swiss-born German artist known for his individual style and color theory"}, {"n": "Piet Mondrian", "u": "/e/visual-artists/piet-mondrian/", "s": "Pioneer of abstract art and co-founder of De Stijl."}, {"n": "Rembrandt", "u": "/e/visual-artists/rembrandt/", "s": "Dutch Golden Age master of light, shadow, and human emotion."}, {"n": "Giotto", "u": "/e/visual-artists/giotto/", "s": "Italian painter and architect from Florence, known for his frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel and as a key figur"}, {"n": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec", "u": "/e/visual-artists/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/", "s": "French Post-Impressionist painter of Parisian nightlife and brothels."}, {"n": "Henri Rousseau", "u": "/e/visual-artists/henri-rousseau/", "s": "French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner."}, {"n": "Ilya Repin", "u": "/e/visual-artists/ilya-repin/", "s": "Ukrainian-born Russian painter, renowned 19th-century artist"}, {"n": "J. M. W. Turner", "u": "/e/visual-artists/j-m-w-turner/", "s": "English Romantic painter who elevated landscape painting."}, {"n": "Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres", "u": "/e/visual-artists/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres/", "s": "French Neoclassical painter known for Jupiter and Thetis and his attention to line."}, {"n": "John Singer Sargent", "u": "/e/visual-artists/john-singer-sargent/", "s": "American expatriate portrait painter of Belle Époque and Edwardian luxury."}, {"n": "Marcel Duchamp", "u": "/e/visual-artists/marcel-duchamp/", "s": "French artist who created readymades as an antidote to retinal art."}, {"n": "Peter Paul Rubens", "u": "/e/visual-artists/peter-paul-rubens/", "s": "Flemish Baroque painter who created the first large-scale Baroque altarpiece in Flanders."}, {"n": "Phidias", "u": "/e/visual-artists/phidias/", "s": "Ancient Greek sculptor of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia."}, {"n": "John Cage", "u": "/e/visual-artists/john-cage/", "s": "American composer who redefined music through chance and silence."}]