Category: Artists

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1977 Summary of Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley is a young, African-American painter, whose sensitive, lively, political portrays…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1962 Summary of Takashi Murakami Known for its brilliantly coloured and maniacally happy works, the meteoric emergence…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1903 Died: 1970 Summary of Mark Rothko A significant character among the artists in the New York…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1911 Died: 1988 Summary of Romare Bearden Romare Bearden, a renowned American artist, has produced a brilliant…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1960 Died: 1988 Summary of Jean-Michel Basquiat In just the brief years of his career, Jean-Michel Basquiat…

Born: 1445 Died: 1510 Summary of Sandro Botticelli Perhaps Botticelli was the Early Renaissance’s largest humanist painter, yet much of his life and inspirations remain…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1922 Died: 2011 Summary of Lucian Freud Known for his honest anatomical and psychological observations, Lucian Freud…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1908 Died: 2001 Summary of Balthus An uncommon personality in the history of painting from the 20th…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1872 Died: 1944 Summary of Piet Mondrian The pureness of his abstractions and the systematic technique by…

(Skip to bullet points (best for students)) Born: 1965 Summary of Damien Hirst Damien Hirst, a controversial character in modern art history, was the 1990s…