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Born on February 1st, 1962, Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine art as a sculptor and painter, but he also works in commercials with the fashion industry, merchandise, and animation. Murakami is also well known… Continue Reading →

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker, he is generally considered the foremost realist painter in the 20th-century of America. Hoppers is best known for his oil paintings, conveying a sense of melancholy or isolation, but he has… Continue Reading →

Born March 22, 1599, in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands Sir Anthony van Dyck was the seventh born of the 12 children of Frans van Dyck, a well-known silk merchant. Van Dyck’s first surviving work, Portrait of a Man, is dated 1613…. Continue Reading →

Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830, on St. Thomas, in the Danish West Indies.   He is a painter and printmaker who is a key member in shaping both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, continuing to paint until his death… Continue Reading →

Tintoretto (born c. 1518, Venice Italy – died May 31, 1594, Venice) is a well known Mannerist artist from Italy’s venetian school. Tintoretto, otherwise known as Jacopo Robusti, took the name tintoretto because of his fathers profession as a dryer… Continue Reading →