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Adrian Piper is a American conceptual and performance artist. She was born on September 20, 1948, New York. She is known for her provocative works that treat race, gender, class, and identity. She studied sculpture and painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City with an associate’s degree in New York in 1969. She then studied philosophy in the City College of New York in 1974 and Harvard university in 1981. Her early art style was conceptual art tradition. Her art work contains both art and philosophy. I like her art works as I think they are very new concept and I like most of her art works are in black and white which made the tone serious for us to really think about.

Resources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adrian-Piper

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Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who was a self-described “obsessional artist,” known for her extensive use of polka dots. She was born on March 22, 1929, in Matsumoto, Japan. She employed painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism. She studied at the Kyoto City Specialist School of Arts between 1948 and 1949. She then moved to New York. Kusama’s artworks are all polka dots in different shapes. One of her famous pieces is the polka dots pumpkin. Kusama also has a cross over with Louis Vuitton in 2012, which made her become well known than before.

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Helen Frankenthaler was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. She was well-known for her bright-colored canvases and lyric qualities. She was born on December 12, 1928, in New York and died on December 27, 2011, in Darien, Connecticut. She studied at Dalton School in New York and at Bennington College in Bennington. In 1960, she started to use acrylics on canvases. Then later in her life she also did some lithographs on papers. This Morning’s Weather (1982) and Yoruba (2002) were her famous artworks that show great landscapes in her paintings. I like her paints as they were softly painted with dramatic colors.

Resources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Frankenthaler

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Erich Heckel was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor during the Expressionism period. He was born on July 31, 1883, in Döbeln, Germany, and died on January 27, 1970, in Radolfzell, West Germany. His paintings and woodcuts of landscape and nudes are well-known. He studied Die Brücke architecture in Germany and Dresden. In his early paintings, strong outlines and bright colors. Later his work that was created in Berlin was more focusing on formal pictorial composition and was more melancholy. He was also good at woodcuts. Sleeping Negress(1908) and Crouching Girl (1912) were all his popular woodcuts. I like the “Stralsund” as the shapes in the woodcut are really well and clear.

Resource: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erich-Heckel

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Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter during the Post-impressionism period of time. He was born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, in Mexico and was died on November 25, 1957. He was the painter who loves paint large scale murals which revival of fresco painting in Latin America. He studied in Spain and settled in Paris and became friends with some leading modern artists. Around 1917, he abandoned the Cubist style and be closer to the Post-impressionism. He used the simple form and bold color in his painting. I like how he used both warm and cold colors in his painting.

Resource: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diego-Rivera

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Ford Madox Brown was an English painter whose work was relevant to the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was born in Calais, France on April 16, 182, and died on October 6, 1893, in London. He studied art in Bruges, Antwerp and Belgium from 1837 to 1839. His most well-known painting was”Work”. It has been seen as a Victorian social document. It was first shown in the exhibition held in London in 1865. From 1879 to 1893, he finished a series of twelve murals for the Manchester town hall which created scenes of city’s history. I like the texture of his painting in both “Work” and “The Irish Girl”.

Resource:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ford-Madox-Brown

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Jean-Marc Nattier was a French Rococo painter who was known by his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV’s court in classical mythological costumes. He was born in Paris on March 17, 1685, and died on November 7, 1766. He was first taught by his portraitist father- Marc Nattier and his history painter uncle- Jean Jouvenet. He painted a series painting of Marie de Médicis during his studied at Royal Academy in 1710 which made him became famous. One thing I like in his paintings is the rich colors especially in the “Madame Le Fèvre de Caumartin as Hebe”.

Resource: https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-rococo-artists/reference, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Marc-Nattier

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Simon Vouet was a French painter who brought the Italianate Baroque style to French. He was born in Paris on January 9, 1590, and died on June 30, 1649. He studied and learned drawing skills in Italy. He was a masterpiece of using lights and shadows in his paintings. He beyond Caravaggio’s painting and used even more uniform diffused white light that made a symbol of his later painting style. One of his famous paintings is “Riches” which was the ornament program of the château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. I like the way how he used lights, shadows, and bright colors to create soft and smooth figures.

Resource: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/painting-of-the-baroque-period/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-Vouet

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Domenico Beccafumi was an Italian greatest painter and sculptor in Mannerism time. He was also a leader in the post-Renaissance style. He was born Montaperti, Siena, the Republic of Siena in 1486, and he died in May 1551. He went to Rome to study the work of Raphael and Michelangelo during 1510. During 1518 and 1546, he created great fine designs for the commesso in the pavement of the Siena cathedral. The images on the commesso were colorful and rich and the Old Testament scenes made a good impression for Charles I of England. I love the way how he just focusing on showing the cloth of the “A Philosopher” figure and tried to let us guess.

Resource: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Domenico-Beccafumi

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Gentile da Fabriano was one of the Italian famous painters at the beginning of the 15th century. He was born in Florence in 1370. He was the painter who has surviving work base on the International Gothic style. One of his famous paintings is “Adoration of the Magi”. The painting was finished in the Church of Santa Trinità in 1423. People got amazed by his artworks. For me, I really love the “Adoration of the Magi” as you can see the tone of the color in this painting is warm as he used mostly red and yellow.

Resource: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gentile-da-Fabriano