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Aaron Douglas (artist)
Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), also called the father of African American art, was a Topeka-born painter and Fisk University art department chair whose silhouetted, Art Deco and Egyptian-influenced style, seen in God's Trombones illustrations, Aspects of Negro Life, and Into Bondage, defined the Harlem Renaissance visually.
Abanindranath Tagore (অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)
Abanindranath Tagore (অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, 1871–1951), nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali painter and writer who founded the Bengal School of Art, painted Bharatmata (1905), and adopted the Japanese wash technique.
Abdur Rahman Chughtai
Abdur Rahman Chughtai (عبدالرحمٰن چغتائی, 1894–1975) was a Pakistani painter from Lahore, regarded as the national artist of Pakistan and known for the Muraqqa-i-Chughtai and its illustrated Ghalib poetry.
Adalbert Erdeli
Adalbert Erdeli (Адальберт Ерделі; 1891–1955) was a Transcarpathian painter and teacher, born in Zahattia and a founder of the Transcarpathian school of painting, influenced by Cézanne's impressionism.
Affandi
Affandi (born Affandi Koesoema, circa 1907–1990) was a self-taught Indonesian Expressionist painter known for squeezing paint directly from the tube onto canvas with his fingers.
Ahmed Shibrain
Ahmed Shibrain (أحمد شبرين, 1931 – March 2017) was a Sudanese modernist painter and educator who co-founded the Khartoum School in 1960, fusing Arabic calligraphy with abstract art.
Aina Onabolu
Aina Onabolu (1882–1963) was a Nigerian portrait painter and art educator, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian art, who brought art teaching into colonial Nigerian schools in the 1920s.
Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee (1928–2020) was an Indian modernist painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in Bombay, known for his monochrome Grey Series, abstract metascapes, and Mirror Image paintings, awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira, born Elea, was a Western Arrernte Aboriginal artist from Central Australia. He is famous for his Western-style watercolor landscapes and founded the Hermannsburg School of painting.
Alexander Deineka
Alexander Deineka (Александр Дейнека; 1899–1969) was a Soviet Russian painter and sculptor whose flat, brightly colored works depict industrial labor, sport, and aviation, including The Defence of Petrograd.
Alexandra Exter
Alexandra Exter (Ukrainian: Oleksandra Ekster, née Grigorovich, 1882–1949) was a Ukrainian avant-garde painter and stage designer whose 1917 Salomé sets at Moscow's Kamerny Theatre founded theatrical constructivism.
Alexandre Benois
Alexandre Benois (Александр Николаевич Бенуа, 1870–1960) was a Russian painter, stage designer, and art historian who co-founded the Mir Iskusstva movement and helped create the Ballets Russes.
Alexej von Jawlensky
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian-born Expressionist painter active in Germany, where he co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in 1909 and joined Der Blaue Reiter.
Alfredo Zalce
Alfredo Zalce (Alfredo Zalce Torres; 1908–2003) was a Mexican painter, muralist, and printmaker, a founder of the Taller de la Gráfica Popular and a renovator of Mexican printmaking.
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian painter and sculptor of the School of Paris, known for elongated portraits and nudes, a 1909–1914 carving period, the police-closed 1917 Weill show, and about 420 paintings and 30 sculptures.
Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), Hungarian-Indian painter and pioneer of modern Indian art; Paris-trained, merged Indian miniature and mural traditions with European modernism; NGMA Delhi holds her largest collection.
André Derain
André Derain (1880–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, a foremost practitioner of Fauvism who later worked with Braque and Picasso and returned to classical tradition.
Anita Malfatti
Anita Malfatti was a Brazilian painter and pioneer of modern art in Brazil, whose 1917 solo exhibition in São Paulo sparked the controversy that fueled Brazilian modernism.
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies i Puig (1923–2012) was a Spanish painter from Barcelona, a leading figure of European Art Informel known for thick, wall-like paintings of marble dust and glue.
Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni (1905–1981) was an Argentine painter, printmaker, and sculptor born in Rosario, a leading social realist known for his Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel series.
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Anwar Jalal Shemza, born Anwar Jalal Butt, was a Pakistani-born painter and writer who fused Arabic calligraphy and Islamic motifs with Western geometric abstraction, living in Stafford, England, until his death in 1985.
Aristarkh Lentulov
Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943) was a Russian and Soviet painter, theatrical designer, and teacher, a founder of the Russian avant-garde known for vivid panels of old Moscow churches.
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian (1904 to 1948), was an Armenian-born American painter who linked European surrealism with abstract expressionism, becoming a pivotal figure in American modernism.
Arthur Dove
Arthur Dove (Arthur Garfield Dove, 1880–1946) was an American painter and collagist, the first twentieth-century American artist to make purely abstract paintings, exhibiting nonobjective pastels at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery in 1912.
Asger Jorn
Asger Jorn, born Asger Oluf Jørgensen, was a Danish painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and writer who co-founded CoBrA in 1948 and the Situationist International in 1957.
August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (1887–1914), German Expressionist painter of Der Blaue Reiter and leading Rhenish Expressionist, formed by French Impressionism, Fauvism, Delaunay's Orphism, and the 1914 Tunisia journey with Klee and Moilliet; killed in World War I at 27.
Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956), English artist and occultist, creator of the sigil method and Zos Kia Cultus; precocious Royal Academy exhibitor whose magical writings later seeded the chaos magick movement.
Axel Salto
Axel Salto (1889–1961) was a Danish painter and ceramicist best known for organic stoneware in three styles he called fluted, budding, and sprouting, made with Royal Copenhagen.
B. C. Sanyal
B. C. Sanyal, born Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, was an Indian painter, sculptor, and art educator who founded the Lahore School of Fine Arts and co-founded the Delhi Silpi Chakra.
Bagyi Aung Soe
Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) was a Burmese painter, illustrator, and teacher regarded as the pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, who studied at Tagore's Śāntiniketan in India in 1951.