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Inji Efflatoun
Inji Efflatoun (إنجي أفلاطون), also written Inji Aflatoun, was an Egyptian painter and Marxist feminist activist whose work moved from surrealism to social realism and the White Light period.
Irma Stern
Irma Stern (1894–1966) was a South African painter, sculptor, and ceramicist who brought German Expressionism to South Africa and became one of the country's most celebrated 20th-century artists.
Itō Shinsui
Itō Shinsui (伊東深水, born Itō Hajime, 1898–1972) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist whose bijin-ga made him a central figure of the shin-hanga movement.
Jack B. Yeats
Jack B. Yeats (Jack Butler Yeats, 1871–1957), Irish painter and brother of W.B. Yeats; Sligo-raised illustrator turned oil painter, known for The Liffey Swim and expressive late style.
Jamini Roy (যামিনী রায়)
Jamini Roy (যামিনী রায়), 1887–1972, Indian modernist painter from Beliatore, Bengal, who rejected academic realism for Kalighat and patua folk styles, ran a mass-production kharkhana, won the Padma Bhushan, and was named one of India's nine masters.
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French painter, sculptor, and writer who coined art brut in 1945 and built the art brut collection now in Lausanne.
Jeanne Hébuterne
Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter known for her self-portraits and portraits of friends. Her work, which included about 25 paintings, remained in private hands until 2000.
Jeram Patel
Jeram Patel (1930–2016) was an Indian abstractionist known for black ink drawings and for pioneering blowtorch-burnt plywood works, and a founding member of Group 1890.
Jewad Selim
Jewad Selim (جواد سليم), 1919 to 1961, was an Iraqi painter and sculptor who founded the Baghdad Modern Art Group and created the Freedom Monument on Tahrir Square.
Jin Cheng
Jin Cheng (金城, 1878–1926), courtesy name Gongbei, was a Chinese painter, collector, and educator who led Beijing's traditionalist movement and founded the Chinese Painting Society in 1920.
Jindřich Štyrský
Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942) was a Czech painter, photographer, and leading figure of interwar surrealism, co-founder with Toyen of artificialism and of the Czech Surrealist Group in Prague.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró (1893–1983), Spanish Catalan painter and sculptor of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca; Surrealist-affiliated inventor of a personal sign language in painting, ceramics, and tapestry, creator of The Farm and the Constellations, and founder of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1975).
Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) was a Uruguayan modernist painter, sculptor, and theorist who created Universal Constructivism, a style combining geometric grids with schematic symbols from many cultures.
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter and teacher who led the Bauhaus preliminary course from 1919 to 1923 and wrote The Art of Color (1961).
John Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl (1903–1985) was a South African painter and art teacher who founded the White Studio in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, and painted township and rural scenes.
John Marin
John Marin (1870–1953) was an early American modernist painter and etcher known for semi-abstract views of Manhattan and Maine, and received a MoMA retrospective in 1936.
John Sloan
John French Sloan (1871–1951), American painter and etcher of the Ashcan School and The Eight; New York urban realist, The Masses art director, Art Students League teacher, record sale Easter Eve $3,032,000.
John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry was an American painter and muralist of the 1930s Regionalist movement, alongside Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, known for Tragic Prelude in the Kansas State Capitol.
Jorge González Camarena
Jorge González Camarena (1908–1980) was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and muralist of the second generation of Mexican muralism, known for a system of geometric harmonies.
José Chávez Morado
José Chávez Morado (1909–2002) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, and muralist of the Escuela Mexicana de Pintura, known for murals at Ciudad Universitaria and Guanajuato.
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) was a Mexican painter, one of Los Tres Grandes muralists with Rivera and Siqueiros, known for expressionist murals on human suffering.
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (1887–1945) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and writer who, with his brother Karel, led interwar Czechoslovak culture and proposed the word robot for the play R.U.R.
Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella, born Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877–1946), was an Italian-born American painter who adapted European Futurism to portray New York's industrial cityscape, above all the Brooklyn Bridge.
Josephine Hopper
Josephine "Jo" Verstille Nivison Hopper (1883–1968), American watercolorist, wife and model of Edward Hopper; managed his career, kept his ledgers, and was rediscovered as an artist after 1980.
Juan Gris
Juan Gris (José Victoriano González Pérez, 1887–1927), Spanish painter in Paris and leading master of Synthetic Cubism; Bateau-Lavoir neighbor of Picasso, Kahnweiler contractee, died aged 40.
K. C. S. Paniker
K. C. S. Paniker (Kovalezhi Cheerampathoor Sankaran Paniker, 1911–1977) was an Indian painter who led the Madras Art Movement and founded the Cholamandal Artists' Village.
K. H. Ara
K. H. Ara (Krishnaji Howlaji Ara, 1914–1985) was an Indian painter and a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group, known for still lifes and female nudes.
Karel Appel
Karel Appel (Christiaan Karel Appel, 1921–2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and printmaker who co-founded the Cobra movement in 1948, known for thick paint and bright color.
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич)
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич), Ukrainian-born Polish avant-garde painter (1878 or 1879-1935), founder of Suprematism, exhibited Black Square at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in December 1915 and wrote 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism'.
Kim Ki-chang
Kim Ki-chang (김기창), known as Unbo, was a South Korean painter of ink and color who modernized traditional Korean painting despite losing his hearing in childhood.