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Alex Grey
Alex Grey (born 1953, born Alex Velzy) is an American visionary artist known for the Sacred Mirrors anatomical paintings, album art for Tool, and co-founding CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, and its Entheon sanctuary in Wappinger, New York. Not the New York gallery Alexander Gray Associates.
Alex Janvier
Alex Janvier (1935–2024) was a Denesuline and Saulteaux painter from the Cold Lake First Nations in Alberta, known as a pioneer of Indigenous modernist art in Canada.
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born 1927, Brooklyn, New York) is an American figurative painter known for large-scale portraits, landscapes, and painted cutouts in flat, bold color, active for more than eight decades.
Alex Raymond
Alex Raymond (1909-1956), American comic strip artist, created Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Secret Agent X-9, and Rip Kirby for King Features; known for dry-brush realistic illustration, Marines service in 1944, and death in a 1956 Westport car crash.
Alex Ross
Alex Ross, born Nelson Alexander Ross in 1970, is an American comic book painter known for realistic, fully painted artwork in Marvels and Kingdom Come.
Alexander Calder
Alexander (Sandy) Calder, 1898-1976, American sculptor; invented the mobile, named by Duchamp, and the stabile; creator of the Cirque Calder wire performances and monumental bolted-steel public sculpture.
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.
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) was a Scottish-born American photographer known for portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War photographs, including the first images of dead soldiers at Antietam in 1862.
Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858) was a Russian painter best known for The Appearance of Christ to the People, one of the best-known works in Russian art.
Alexander Mosaic
Alexander Mosaic, a c. 100 BCE Roman floor mosaic from Pompeii's House of the Faun depicting Alexander the Great and Darius III (Battle of Issus), now in Naples, under restoration since 2021.
Alexander Newley
Alexander Newley (Sacha Newley, born 1965) is a British portrait painter, writer and teacher, son of Joan Collins and Anthony Newley, known for portraits of Gore Vidal, Christopher Reeve and Judi Dench held by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Alexander Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко)
Alexander Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко, 1891–1956), Russian Constructivist painter, graphic designer, and photographer; pioneer of photomontage, Mayakovsky's advertising partner, and maker of the 1924 Books poster.
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.
Alexandra Grant
Alexandra Grant (born 1973, Fairview Park, Ohio) is an American Los Angeles-based text-and-language artist in painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography; creator of grantLOVE (2008) and cofounder of X Artists' Books (2017), with works in LACMA, MOCA, OCMA, and Blanton collections.
Alexandra Hedison
Alexandra Hedison (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer and filmmaker in Los Angeles, daughter of actor David Hedison, former The L Word actor, known for The In Between, A Brief Infinity, and works in the Getty and LACMA collections.
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.
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was a French academic painter and leading figure of official 19th-century French art, best known for The Birth of Venus (1863) and his society portraits.
Alexei Antropov
Alexei Petrovich Antropov (Алексей Антропов; 1716–1795) was an early Russian portrait painter and church decorator, best known for court portraits of Empress Elizabeth and Peter III.
Alexei Savrasov
Alexei Savrasov (Алексей Кондратьевич Саврасов, 1830–1897) was a Russian landscape painter and teacher, born and died in Moscow, whose The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) founded the lyrical Russian landscape.
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.
Alexey Brodovitch
Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971) was a Russian-born graphic designer, photographer, and art director who transformed American magazine design as art director of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed "What, me worry?" mascot of Mad magazine, first on its cover in December 1956 via Norman Mingo, with pre-Mad roots in 1890s advertising and a 1965 copyright lawsuit.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-born American photojournalist, one of four original LIFE magazine staff photographers, best known for his 1945 photograph V-J Day in Times Square.
Alfred Jewel
The Alfred Jewel is a late 9th-century gold, cloisonné enamel and rock crystal ornament inscribed AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN, found in 1693 at North Petherton, Somerset, and held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; it is probably an aestel, a manuscript pointer linked to King Alfred the Great.
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Kubin (Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin, 1877–1959), Austrian draftsman, illustrator and writer of the fantastic novel Die andere Seite (The Other Side); pen-and-ink Symbolist graphic artist, Blaue Reiter external member, lived reclusively at Zwickledt from 1906.
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a British landscape painter, born in Paris to English parents, who spent almost his whole life in France and helped found Impressionism.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), American photographer and art dealer; founder of the Photo-Secession, editor of Camera Work, and operator of gallery 291; maker of The Steerage and the Equivalents cloud series.
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.
Alhambra Vase
The Alhambra Vase is a type of monumental luxury ceramic vase made in the Nasrid kingdom of Granada between the late 13th and 15th centuries.
Ali and Nino (sculpture)
Ali and Nino (sculpture), also titled Man and Woman, is Tamara Kvesitadze's 8-meter kinetic steel sculpture on Batumi's seafront, installed 2010, whose two figures merge and separate in a daily 10-minute cycle inspired by Kurban Said's 1937 novel.