Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist, who uses painting and sculptures as his way to express his art. He works in fine media arts, but also commercial media. One of his signature moves is blurring the line between high and low arts. Takashi first gained recognition as a sculptor during the early 1990s, when … Read more
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol, England, on June 7, 1965. He is an artist, entrepreneur, and art collector, emerging as a leading figure during the Young British Artists movement in the late 1980s and 1990s. He is considered to be the wealthiest living artist in the United Kingdom, with his net worth an estimated … Read more
Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter, mostly known for his large frescoes and murals. He helped establish the Mexican mural movement in Mexican art. He is known for two things, one is the Mexican mural movement of the 1920s, and for being married to Frida Kahlo. He was still married when he met Frida, … Read more
Born as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, he is better known as Sandro Botticelli, an Italian painter during the period of the Early Renaissance. He is best known for his mythological allegories, and his most famous works of art include Primavera, Birth of Venus, and Pallas and the Centaur. Botticelli was one of the … Read more
Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, but also for his sculptures, drawings, and prints. Identified with the subject of dance, more than half of his works include ballerinas and dancers. Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. However, he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a … Read more
Mr. Brainwash is a name used by Thierry Guetta. He is a French-born, but Los Angeles-based street artist. According to the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop, which is a movie about his beginnings, he was a proprietor of a used clothing store. There, he began as a security guard, and amateur videographer. He became … Read more
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of color and for his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, but also sculptor and printmaker. Primarily, however, he is known as a painter. He is regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century, rivaling Pablo Picasso in the importance of his … Read more
William Thomas Kinkade was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is also one of the most controversial artists, and he even said so in an interview in 2001. The reason is simple, he reached his highest success by mass marketing his work as printed reproductions. Artists and critics criticize him … Read more
His middle name is Dillon, and he is a boy. It is as simple as that, says the artist known as Dillon Boy. Born as James Dillon Wright, he has been painting for more than 25 years. And no, he doesn’t have a favorite piece yet. While many artists are recognizable by that one piece, … Read more
Today, there might not be a person in the United States that hasn’t heard of Andy Warhol. The American artist, director, and producer, was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. He might not have been the founder of pop art, but he was the one to bring it to … Read more