Artists

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter and researcher in many fields.

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent much of his working life in France.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter.

Miyake Issei (Japanese: Miyake Issey/ Issei, Romanized: Miyake Issei, April 22, 1938 - August 5, 2022), a Japanese fashion designer, is famous for his innovative clothing design, exhibitions and water-of-life perfumes.

Shangguan Zhou (1665-1752), courtesy name Wenzuo and nickname Zhuzhuang, was born in Changting, Fujian. A painter of the Qing Dynasty, he was the leader in the painting circle of western Fujian.

George Eastman (English: George Eastman, July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932), American inventor, founder of Kodak Company and inventor of film. Eastman was born in New York State in the United States in 1854. He had already devoted himself to social work as a boy and held low-level positions in insurance and banking. Later, he concentrated on developing photographic equipment and invented a film coated with a layer of dry gelatin in 1878. Prior to this, photographic negatives were wet films. In 1879, Eastman invented a milk coating machine and began mass production of dry films. In 1881, Eastman founded the Eastman Dry Plate Manufacturing Company, the predecessor of Kodak. In 1886, Eastman developed roll-type photosensitive film. In the same year, a new camera was also successfully developed. On March 14, 1932, Eastman shot himself in his home in Rochester, New York.

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Parma, Rome and Naples. Giovanni Lanfranco is one of the greatest painters of the Emilia School, together with the Carracci brothers, Guido Reni, Francesco Albani, Domenichino and Guercino.

Giovanni Bellini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni belˈliːni]; approximately 1430 - November 29, 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian School. He was raised in the home of Jacopo Bellini, who was considered his father; however, their kinship was later questioned in studies. Gentile Bellini is his elder brother. Andrea Mantegna was his sister's husband. Giovanni Bellini is considered an innovator in Venetian painting, leading the Venetian School towards a more sensual, colorful style. Bellini used clear, slow-drying oil paints to create rich, deep tones and delicate variations of light and dark. His gorgeous use of color and fluid, atmospheric landscapes had a profound influence on the Venetian School, especially on his students Giorgione and Titian. He is also the name behind the Bellini cocktail.

Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, KBE (English: Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, February 27, 1967-), also known as Jony Ive, is a designer from the United Kingdom. He once served as the chief design officer of Apple, responsible for product design and human-computer interface design. He is the main designer and concept creator of many Apple products, including Macbook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, etc., and has participated in explaining Apple products many times. In November 2019, Ive resigned from Apple and co-founded a new design company, LoveFrom, with designer Marc Newson, and continues to provide design services to client Apple. Ive ended her relationship with Apple in July 2022. In 2025, the company io founded by Yves and others in 2024 was acquired by OpenAI, and Yves joined OpenAI.

Alexander Calder (English: Alexander Calder, or translated as Kolda, July 22, 1898 - November 11, 1976), a famous American sculptor, artist, and inventor of movable devices.

Alexander McQueen, CBE (Lee Alexander McQueen, March 17, 1969 - February 11, 2010), British fashion designer.

Henry Spencer Moore, OM, CH, FBA (English: Henry Spencer Moore, July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986), British sculptor. Moore is best known for his large cast bronze sculptures and marble sculptures. Revered by the British art circle, his creations helped Britain occupy a place in modernist art. The hollow, reclining figures are the most typical of Moore's sculptural styles. This look is believed to have been inspired by a Toltec-Mayan sculpture he saw in Paris in 1925 called the "Chac Mool." The voids in Moore's early works often take more traditional forms, such as curved arms connected to the subject. Later, it gradually evolved into a hollow on the main body, thus causing the main body to have a concave and convex or curved appearance. A similar style was developed in the work of Barbara Hepworth of the same period, who was initially influenced by Moore's work.

Henri-Emile Benoit Matisse, French painter, sculptor and printmaker, founder of Fauvism. Matisse, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, brought great changes to the plastic arts in the early 20th century. He is also the leader of the Fauves. Fauvism advocated the theory of Impressionism and contributed to the first art movement of the 20th century. The use of bold and flat colors and informal lines is Matisse's style. His playful structures, vivid colors and light themes are what made him famous and made him one of the most important figures in modern art.

Ren Yi (1840-1895). His original name was Xiaoshu, his first name was Run, his courtesy name was Xiaolou, and his first name was Xiaolou. His posthumous name was Ciyuan, with the courtesy name Bonian, and he was often called Ren Bonian. He was born in Shanyin (Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), so the signature of the paintings often reads "Shanyin Ren Yi", a modern Chinese painter.

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (French: Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008) was a French fashion designer who is considered one of the greatest French designers of the 20th century. Gucci Group bought Yves Saint Laurent's brand in 2002.

Rembrandt Harmensson van Rijn, commonly known as Rembrandt, is one of the representative painters of Baroque painting art. He is also a major figure in Dutch Golden Age painting in the 17th century. He is considered the greatest painter in Dutch history. Among the greatest Dutch people voted in 2004, he ranked ninth, second to Anne Frank, who was eighth. His era is known as the Dutch Golden Age, when the Netherlands' achievements in science, art, and commerce reached their peak.

Pedro Berruguete (Spanish: Pedro Berruguete, 1450-1504), a European painter during the Renaissance. The father of Alonso Berruguete, he was the Spanish court painter to Ferdinand and Isabella. He also worked in the library of the Duke of Urbino.

Per Lasson Krohg (June 18, 1889 – March 3, 1965) was a Norwegian artist. His most famous work is the mural he created for the United Nations Security Council Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Hou Yimin (1930-January 1, 2023), Mongolian, native of Gaoyang, Hebei Province, was a Chinese oil painter, sculptor, art educator, and honorary president of the Chinese Mural Society. He once served as deputy director of the Oil Painting Department, director of the Mural Painting Department, and first vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in the design of the third and fourth sets of RMB, and participated in the creation of gardens such as Splendid China and the Chinese Folk Culture Village. In 2013, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Second China Art Awards.

Paul Cézanne (French: Paul Cézanne, January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose style ranged from Impressionism to Cubism. His works laid the foundation for the transformation of 19th-century artistic concepts into 20th-century artistic styles, and he was hailed as "the father of us all" by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The painting methods used by Cézanne, as well as his artistic proposition that all objects in nature can be composed of three structures: cylinders, spheres and cones, profoundly influenced and revolutionized 20th century art, especially his first solo exhibition in 1895 and the official retrospective of his works in 1907.

Paul Klee (Paul Klee, December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. He studied painting at the Munich Art School and produced many prints and line drawings, mostly in black and white. In 1914, he was inspired to travel to Tunisia with his friends, and he became a painter of color paintings. He created excellent works. His famous works include Fish Magic, Zitronen and Viaducts Break Ranks. His painting styles have been classified as Surrealism, Cubism and Expressionism. He also coached in Weimar, Dessau and Dusseldorf. He has a unique appreciation for changes in color. In his mature period, his works used a wide variety of mixed media, such as sand or sawdust, to create paintings with special tension. He and his friend, the Russian painter Kandinsky, were both famous Bauhaus teachers at that time.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (French: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, June 7, 1848 - May 8, 1903) was an Impressionist painter born in Paris, France. Most art historians classify him as a Post-Impressionist. His work only became famous after his death. He is a representative figure of Impressionism. In addition to painting, he also has certain achievements in sculpture, ceramics, printmaking and writing. His use of color led to synthesistism, which, coupled with the influence of segregationism, also paved the way for primitivism.

Fu Shan (August 11, 1607 - July 25, 1684), whose real name was Dingchen, with the courtesy name Qingzhu, was later renamed Shan, and later given the courtesy name Qingzhu, with the following characters: Gongzhita, Gongta, Zhenshan, Zhuyi Taoren, Shidaoren, Selu, Qiaohuang, Qiaosong, etc. He was a native of Yangqu, Shanxi (today's West Village, Xiangyang Town, Jiancaoping District, Taiyuan City). He was a beginner in the late Ming and Qing Dynasties and regarded himself as a survivor of the Ming Dynasty.

Fu Baoshi (October 5, 1904 - September 29, 1965), formerly known as Changsheng, scientific name Ruilin, courtesy name Qingyuan, owner of Baoshizhai, was a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, a Chinese painter and art historian.