Jeffrey Lynn Koons Jeff Koons is one of America’s most popular contemporary artists. His Neo-Pop aesthetics and wry appropriations of consumer objects, express a reverence for popular culture. “I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation,” the artist has explained. He is perhaps best known for his oversized sculptures of kitschy souvenirs, toys, and ornaments that are bright and shiny, as seen in his Celebration (1994–2011) s

Constructivism Constructivism is conducive to the practice of art as a social purpose. Constructivism had a great influence on modern art movements in the 20th century, such as the Bauhaus\DeStyle movement. The emphasis is on movement in space, rather than the sense of volume that traditional sculptures emphasize. Also known as Structuralism, Suprematism represented by Malevich and Mondrian's New Mannerism, active from 1911 to 1933. Constructivism was a reform movement in sculpture, influence

American realism American literature between 1865 and 1918 is known in American literary history as the period of realism. American literature of this period was the expression of American spirit, especially American novels. Realism is a reaction to Romanticism. Face the reality, not fantasy. Realist literature paved the way for modernist literature. Christina’s World The high level of detail Wyeth gave to every object in his paintings encourages intense inspection, but his titles reveal the

1. Costume for Mother Earth by Miriam Schapiro The Legacy of Miriam Schapiro Schapiro was a leading voice in the development of the Feminist art movement. Through her work and her teaching, she influenced the work and changed the lives of women artists all over the world who heard her lecture and saw her work 2. Fallen Woman (Femme Maison), 1946 - Louise Bourgeois This composition appeared first in an ink on linen work of 1946-47, and was then used for an exhibition brochure for "Louise Bou

Hirohiko Araki is a Japanese manga artist who made his debut under the name Toshiyuki Araki in 1980 with his one-shot Poker Under Arms. He began his professional career with the short series Cool Shock B.T., Baoh, and The Gorgeous Irene. Araki is best known for his long-running series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which was first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1987. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has sold over 100 million copies in Japan alone and is known for its frequent references to Western rock m

Considered the greatest painter in all of European Art, Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age. As a child, he had an inclination towards painting, and spent three years under the apprenticeship of a local history painter. After another six month apprenticeship with painter Jan Pieter Lastman, he opened his own studio. He began taking art students at his studio at the ripe old age of twenty-one years old. In 1631, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, which at the tim

Ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e (Japanese: ukiyo-e / うきよえ) is a Japanese painting art form that was widely popular in the Edo period due to its ingenious combination with woodblock printing. The center ushered in a creative and commercial heyday, depicting people's daily lives, landscapes, and theater. Ukiyo-e is often thought to refer to color-printed woodblock prints (called nishiki-e in Japanese), but in fact there are also hand-painted works. Ito Jakuchu Animal and Plant Color Painting Ito Ruochhong b

Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was the most dominant and influential artist of the 1st half of the 20th century. Associated most of all with pioneering Cubism, he also invented collage and made major contribution to Surrealism. He saw himself above all as a painter, yet his sculpture was greatly influential, and he also explored areas as diverse as printmaking and ceramics. Finally, he was a famously charismatic personality, the leading figure in the Ecole de Paris. His many relationships with w

Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean-born poet and artist known for works that address colonialism, the body, and human rights. In her painting Karl Marx (1972), Vicuña situates the coauthor of the Communist Manifesto amidst blossoming trees and a couple in love, compressing history and personal life. Her ongoing series of small sculptures precarios, are reminiscent of the work Joseph Beuys. These spatial poems are comprised of feathers, plastic, wood, wire, and other detritus.“The notion that art and p

    Amy Feldman is an American abstract painter from Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2003.     She then attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she received an MFA in Painting in 2008. She subsequently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for a nine-week residency in 2009.     Feldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant (2018) and Joan Mitchell

An influential non-representational painter, Piet Mondrian’s art evolved over his lifetime into his own unique style, which he coined “neo-plasticism.” This art was not based on outside artistic influences or on typical techniques, but was instead Mondrian’s interpretation of his deeply felt philosophical beliefs. He subscribed to two sets of philosophical beliefs; theosophy, a religious mysticism which sought to help humanity achieve perfection, and anthroposophy, which held that the spiritual

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp,was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty

Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s. His best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67). The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsb

Joan Cornellà Vázquez was born in Barcelona, Spain on 11 January 1981. He graduated in fine arts and has collaborated for numerous publications, such as La cultura del Duodeno, El Periódico, Ara and has illustrated for The New York Times. In 2009 he won the third edition of the Josep Coll Prize with his album Abulio, published in the next year by Glénat. Since 2010, he has provided cartoons for the Spanish magazine El Jueves. In 2012, Fracasa Mejor, a selection of Cornellà's black-and-white car

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation[1] and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more col

Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist known for his big-headed girls with piercing eyes. He has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions and his art work has been housed at the MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His most well-known and repeated subjects are "big-headed girls" with piercing eyes, who one Nara scholar describes as having "childlike expressions [that] resonate with adult emotions, [their] embodiment of kawaii (cuteness) carries a dark humor, and any explicit cultural refere

Kahlo's life was fraught with physical and emotional pain. She contracted polio at the age of six, which left her right leg thinner and shorter than her left. In 1925, at the age of eighteen, she was in a bus accident that shattered her spine, ribs, collarbone, and pelvis, and impaled her right foot. The accident caused her lifelong pain and medical problems, including seventeen surgeries. Kahlo was bedridden for three months following the accident, during which time she took up painting as a fo

Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau, Picardy, France. He was the leader of the Fauvist movement about 1900, and he pursued the expressiveness of color throughout his career. His subjects were largely domestic or figurative, and a distinct Mediterranean verve presides in the treatment. Matisse's parents were in the grain business, and he displayed little interest in art until he was 20 years old. From 1882 to 1887, he attended the secondary school in Saint-Quentin; after a

Abstract Expressionism is a style of art that rejects representational art. In the 20th century, this trend manifested itself in biomorphic abstractions by Kandinsky and the Surrealists, and geometric abstractions by Malevich and the Constructivists. Abstract Expressionism completely rejects all forms and uses color as the only tool for expression. Abstract Expressionism has two sub-styles: Action Painting and Color Field Painting. Action Painting is based on a surrealist technique of automatic

The difference between photos and paintings is obvious, but there are people who break this theorem and paint paintings that rival photos. The peak of artistic skills is amazing. These people are called hyper-realistic painters. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture that resembles a high-resolution photograph. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 1970s. Carole Feuerman is the for