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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German pioneer of Expressionism; worked in Worpswede and Paris; first woman to paint nude self-portraits; over 700 paintings; Bremen museum opened 1927.
Pavel Filonov
Pavel Filonov (Павел Филонов, 1883–1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter and art theorist who founded analytical art and taught that a painting should be built up atom by atom like a living organism.
Pavel Tchelitchew (Павел Фёдорович Челищев)
Pavel Tchelitchew (Павел Фёдорович Челищев), 1898–1957, Russian-born Surrealist and Neo-Romantic painter and stage designer active in Kiev, Berlin, Paris, and New York; best known for the multiple-image metamorphic canvas Hide-and-Seek at MoMA.
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, 1872–1944), Dutch painter and De Stijl co-founder, creator of Neoplasticism: black horizontal-vertical grids with red, yellow, blue planes; late New York works Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie.
Pyotr Konchalovsky
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (Пётр Петрович Кончаловский, 1876–1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter who co-founded and chaired the Jack of Diamonds avant-garde society in 1910.
Qi Baishi (齐白石)
Qi Baishi (齐白石, 1864–1957), Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet from Xiangtan, Hunan; carpenter turned modern ink master known for shrimp paintings, the 'red flowers, ink leaves' style, and the 931.5-million-yuan Twelve Landscape Screens record.
Quamrul Hassan
Quamrul Hassan (কামরুল হাসান), known as Patua Quamrul Hassan, was a Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of modern art who gave the national flag its present form in 1972.
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), French Fauvist painter, watercolorist, engraver, and textile designer from Le Havre; creator of La Fée Électricité (1937) and nearly 4,000 Bianchini Férier fabric motifs.
René Magritte
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian Surrealist painter, also called 'the treachery of images' artist. Born in Lessines, died in Brussels of pancreatic cancer; known for the pipe painting 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe', bowler hats, and record 2022 auction prices.
Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk (Роберт Рафаилович Фальк, 1886–1958) was a Russian and Soviet painter and theater designer who co-founded the avant-garde Jack of Diamonds society and worked in Paris from 1928 to 1938.
Robert Henri
Robert Henri, born Robert Henry Cozad, was an American painter and teacher who led the Ashcan School and organized the independent 1908 exhibition of The Eight.
Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta (1911–2002) was a Chilean painter who trained as an architect, joined the Paris Surrealists in the late 1930s, and became a decisive stimulus for Abstract Expressionism.
Roberto Montenegro
Roberto Montenegro, born Roberto Montenegro Nervo, was a Mexican painter from Guadalajara and a founding figure of Mexican Muralism; some specialists call his mural El árbol de la vida the movement's first work.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator known for stark landscapes of Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland and his celebrated woodcut-illustrated 1930 edition of Moby Dick.
Roland Penrose
Sir Roland Penrose (1900–1984), English Surrealist painter, collagist, collector, and curator; co-organizer of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, co-founder of the ICA, Picasso's friend and biographer, husband of Lee Miller.
Rudolf Bonnet
Rudolf Bonnet was a Dutch painter who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1929, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association in 1936, and helped establish the Museum Puri Lukisan.
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a Mexican painter and printmaker whose boldly colored, semiabstract paintings combined European modernism with Mexican folk art, standing apart from the political muralists.
S. Sudjojono
S. Sudjojono (Sindudarsono Sudjojono, 1913–1986) was an Indonesian painter known as the Father of Modern Indonesian Painting, who co-founded the artists' union Persagi in 1938 and championed social realism.
Saeki Yūzō
Saeki Yūzō (佐伯祐三, 1898–1928) was a Japanese painter known for expressive street scenes of Paris, painted during two stays in France before his death there in 1928, aged 30.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Catalan painter from Figueres and leading Surrealist, creator of The Persistence of Memory and the paranoiac-critical method; expelled from Surrealism in 1934, famed for Un Chien Andalou with Buñuel.
Sanyu
Sanyu (常玉), also romanized Chang Yu, was a Chinese painter who worked in Paris from the early 1920s until his death in 1966, fusing Chinese calligraphic line with European modernism.
Skunder Boghossian
Skunder Boghossian (Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian, 1937–2003) was an Ethiopian painter and art teacher, a leading figure of African modernism whose work fused Ethiopian sacred imagery with surrealist and Pan-African traditions.
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay (born Sarah Stern, 1885–1979) was a Ukrainian-born French painter and designer who co-founded Orphism with Robert Delaunay and extended its bold colors into textiles, fashion, and books.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, was a Polish painter, playwright, and philosopher, a central figure of the interwar avant-garde who wrote more than thirty plays.
Stanislaw Noakowski
Stanisław Noakowski (1867–1928) was a Polish architect and graphic artist who built almost nothing, remembered for thousands of drawings of imaginary architecture in historical styles.
Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), English painter of Cookham, Berkshire; Slade-trained, RAMC veteran of Macedonia, creator of Sandham Memorial Chapel murals and The Resurrection, Cookham; knighted 1958.
Szentendre artists' colony
The Szentendre artists' colony (Szentendrei művésztelep) is a painters' community founded in 1926 in Szentendre, Hungary, continuing the Nagybánya school tradition after World War I.
Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (Tamara Łempicka), born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska, was a Polish-born Art Deco painter known as the "Baroness with a Brush", celebrated for sleek, stylized portraits and nudes of 1920s Paris high society.
Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) was a Brazilian painter and a founding figure of Brazilian modernism, blending European avant-garde lessons with Brazilian subjects; her 1928 painting Abaporu inspired the Anthropophagy movement.
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), American Regionalist painter and muralist from Neosho, Missouri; led Regionalism with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, painted America Today and the Missouri Capitol murals, taught Pollock, and was the first artist on Time's cover.