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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (/ p iː t ˈ m ɒ n d r i ɑː n /, US also /-ˈ m ɔː n-/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Sam Gilliam (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l i əm / GHIL-ee-əm; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American abstract painter, sculptor, and arts educator.Born in Mississippi, and raised in Kentucky, Gilliam spent his entire adult life in Washington, D.C., eventually being described as the "dean" of the city's arts community. [1]
Fine art: Use of group theory, self-replicating shapes in art [21] [22] Escher, M. C. 1898–1972: Fine art: Exploration of tessellations, hyperbolic geometry, assisted by the geometer H. S. M. Coxeter [19] [23] Farmanfarmaian, Monir: 1922–2019: Fine art: Geometric constructions exploring the infinite, especially mirror mosaics [24] Ferguson ...
The walls burst with bold, floating shapes of vibrant orange, yellow and blue hues against a white background. It resembles a “torn paper collage,” said Fonda, an art professor at Sacramento ...
One thing that has changed since the beginning of house painting and present-day wall art is their styles. [citation needed] At the beginning of house painting, their symbols and patterns were often based on Ndebele's beadwork. The patterns were tonal and painted with the women's fingers. The original paint on the house was a limestone whitewash.
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
Three Musicians, also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks, is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He painted two versions of Three Musicians . Both versions were completed in the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France , in the garage of a villa that Picasso was using as his studio.
Jesus Treviño (December 24, 1946 – February 13, 2023), better known as Jesse Treviño, was a Mexican-born American visual artist.He essentially became a Chicano artist after he was wounded in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, which required him to learn how to paint with his left hand.