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Biography
Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948) - Turkey (Khorgom)
Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism
Arshile Gorky (/ˌɑːrʃiːl ˈɡɔːrkiː/ born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has ...... |
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Biography
Konstantinos Maleas (1879 - 1928) - Turkey (Constantinople)
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism
Konstantinos Maleas (Κωνσταντίνος Μαλέας) (Constantinople, 1879 - Athens, 1928) was one of the most important Post-impressionist Greek painters of the 20th century. Along with Konstantinos Parthenis, he is sometimes considered Greece's most important modern artist. Maleas was born and grew up in Constantinople, far away from the Greek artistic cent...... |
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Biography
Georgios Jakobides (1853 - 1932) - Turkey (Lesbos)
Realism, Realism
Georgios Jakobides (Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης 11 January 1853 – 13 December 1932) was a painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens. He was born in Chidira,Lesbos, Ottoman Empire. At the age of 13, he traveled to Smyrna to ...... |
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Mario Prassinos (1916 - 1985) - Turkey (Constantinople)
Mario Prassinos (1916–1985) was a French modernist painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer of Greek-Italian descent. Prassinos was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in 1916, the son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos. In 1922, at the age of six, he immigrated to France with his family, who had escaped the bru...... |
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