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Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) - France (Blainville-Crevon)
Expressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Op-Art, Conceptual Art
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃] 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, alo...... |
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Gerhard Richter Germany (Dresden)
Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art
Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʀɪçtɐ] born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In October 2012, ...... |
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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) - France (Paris)
Surrealism, Conceptual Art, Minimalism
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ( listen) 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexua...... |
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Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986) - Germany (Krefeld)
Neo-Dada, Conceptual Art
Joseph Beuys (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs] 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy it culminates in his "extended definition of ...... |
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Joseph Kosuth United States (Toledo)
Conceptual Art
Joseph Kosuth (/kəˈsuːt, -ˈsuːθ/ born January 31, 1945) is an American conceptual artist. He lives in New York and London, after residing in various cities in Europe, including Ghent and Rome. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kosuth had an American mother and a Hungarian father. (A relative, Lajos Kossuth, achieved notability for his role in the Hungarian Rev...... |
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Biography
Jeff Koons United States (York)
Conceptual Art
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantia...... |
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Biography
Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011) - United Kingdom (Pimlico)
Pop Art, Conceptual Art
Richard Hamilton, CH (24 de Fevereiro de 1922 - 13 de Setembro de 2011) foi um pintor e artista da colagem britânico. Sua colagem de 1956, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produzida para This Is Tomorrow exposição do Independent Group em Londres, é considerado por críticos e historiadores como uma das primeiras ...... |
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