Artists

Ibrahim Kodra (Italian: Ibrhaim Kodra; April 22, 1918 - February 7, 2006) was a famous European painter.

Chao Shuozhi (1059-1129), whose courtesy name was Yidao, was born in Juye, Jeju (now Juye, Shandong). Jinshi in the fifth year of Shenzong Yuanfeng's reign (1082). In the second year of Chongning of Emperor Huizong (1103), he knew Wuji County in Dingzhou. He was a native of Zhongshushe during the Jingkang Revolution. After Emperor Gaozong crossed south, he was called as an attendant and promoted to Dongxiao Palace in Hangzhou. He died in the third year of Jianyan (1129). There is "Collected Works of Songshan".

Protilla Nellie (1524–1588) was a nun and the first known female painter in Renaissance Florence. His work was influenced by Girolamo Savonarola and Brother Bartolomeo. Her works have religious themes.

Man Ray (English: Man Ray, August 27, 1890 - November 18, 1976), formerly known as Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Although he never formally participated in the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, he made significant contributions to both movements. His works can be seen in various types of media, and he sees himself first as a painter. Known for his avant-garde and surreal photography style, he is also a renowned fashion photographer and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also famous for his contribution to the development of "photogram", which he called "Rayograph". The American ARTnews magazine named Man Ray one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century in 1999.

Soga Shouhaku (Japanese: Soga Shobai/Morning Shohaku, Romanized: Soga Shouhaku, 1730-1781), a Japanese painter in the Edo period. He studied Kano school painting and later developed his own nostalgic Muromachi ink painting style. Many of his works use monochrome ink, with vigorous and powerful brushwork. He is most famous for his portraits and landscapes based on Chinese legends and folk tales.

Zeng Fanzhi (1964-), Chinese painter, was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1991.

Sugimoto Hiroshi (Japanese: Sugimoto Hiroshi/Sugimoto Hiroshi, Romanized: Sugimoto Hiroshi, February 23, 1948 -), Japanese photographer, contemporary artist, architect, and theater director. He was born in Okachimachi, Tokyo City (now Taito Ward, Tokyo). Known as the first of conceptual photography, he is admired for his iconic, topical black and white images of museums, theatres, seascapes and architecture.

Li Keran (March 26, 1907 - December 5, 1989), formerly known as Li Yongshun, was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was a contemporary Chinese painter and the core founder of the modern transformation of Chinese landscape painting. He mainly creates landscape paintings and animal paintings, especially painting cows.

Li Naihan (January 5, 1981 -) is a Chinese designer, architect, and artist.

Murakami Takashi (Japanese: Murakami Takashi/Murakami Takashi, Romanized: Murakami Takashi, February 1, 1962 -) is a Japanese artist. He studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. He is the founder of the Superflat movement, a postmodern art style influenced by Japanese animation and manga that focuses on otaku culture and lifestyle. It was inspired by numerous eccentric ukiyo-e artists and the 1983 animated work "Harmagedon" by Iko Kaneda. Received BFA, MFA and PhD awards from Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1996, he founded the HIROPON factory in Tokyo, which later evolved into the current Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., a large-scale art production and art management company. He has exhibited at many world-famous exhibition venues, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 2001, the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2007, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York in 2008. In 2003, he created colorful patterned leather goods for Louis Vuitton, pushing his personal art career to its peak. Currently, he serves as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Yang Fudong (1971-) is a Chinese video artist.

Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the Abstract Expressionist movement. He is famous for his unique creation of drip painting.

Jeff Koons (English: Jeff Koons, /kuːnz/, January 21, 1955 -) is an American artist. His works are often made of extremely monotonous things - such as stainless steel skeletons and mirror-finished balloon beasts, often dyed with bright colors. Koons's works are sold around the world, holding at least one auction price record for a work by a living artist. Critics tend to have two opinions about him. Some believe that his works are avant-garde and have important art historical value. Some think it's kitsch - sensationalism, based on purely self-serving self-promotion. Koons claims that his works contain no hidden meanings.

Gerald David, European Dutch painter of the Renaissance. He worked mainly in Bruges and Antwerp. He specialized in depicting scenes of Christ's domestic life, a popular theme imitated by many of his contemporaries.

Jamie McGregor Reid (January 16, 1947 - August 8, 2023) was a British visual artist. His best-known works include the record cover of his Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen", which is known as "the most iconic pattern of the punk era".

Lin Fengmian (November 22, 1900 - August 12, 1991), formerly known as Lin Fengming, was a native of Xiyang, Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He was a Chinese painter and educator, an enlightener of modern Chinese art, and one of the pioneers of modern Chinese painting that integrated Chinese and Western elements. Together with Yan Wenliang, Xu Beihong and Liu Haisu, he was known as one of the "Four Principals". Six years old was in trouble, and his loving mother was sold, and the lifelong search failed. He copied "The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Biography" since he was a child, and went to France to study at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was exposed to modern artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. He also traveled to Germany and came into contact with Expressionism and Abstractionism. He returned to China in 1925 and was appointed as the principal of the Peking Art College, launching the art movement. In 1928, he founded the Hangzhou National Academy of Art (now the China Academy of Art) and served as its dean and professor. Together with Fang Qianmin and Wu Dayu, he became famous in the Western Painting Department, and his students Zhao Wou-ki, Zhu Dequn, and Wu Guanzhong became famous. During the Anti-Japanese War, the studio was covered in dust and many paintings were destroyed. He was dismissed from his post in 1937 and turned to study Western modern art. He was killed during the Cultural Revolution. He destroyed three thousand paintings and was imprisoned for four and a half years. He moved to Hong Kong in 1977 and lived in seclusion in Taikoo Shing. He died in Hong Kong in 1991.

Li Xianting (December 22, 1949 -) is a Chinese art critic. He was an important critic in the 1980s and 1990s. He had an important and far-reaching influence on the occurrence and development of the Chinese modern art movement. In the early 1980s, Li Xianting first introduced the "Star Painting School" and some other avant-garde art works in the official "Art" magazine. From the mid-1980s to 1989, he served as the editor of "China Art News" and did a lot of work for the dissemination and organization of the "85 New Wave". The artist Li Xianting admired during this period was Nanjing artist Ding Fang, and he wrote the most important critical article in the history of Chinese criticism during this period: "The Times Calls for the Life Passion of the Great Soul" to affirm Ding Fang's art. After 1989, Li Xianting named new art phenomena and conducted relatively systematic research, launching art schools such as "Political Pop", "Cynical Realism", and "Gaudy Art". In the late 1990s, Li Xianting served as the curator of the "Corpse Art" exhibition "Fascination with Injury" to support the radical actions of younger artists. After 2000, Li Xianting's artistic activities gradually decreased. The exhibition "Rosary Beads and Brushstrokes" curated in 2003 at the Tokyo Gallery in the Dashanzi area of ​​Beijing was one of the very few exhibitions in recent years.

Kurita Shigetaka (Japanese: Kurita Shigetaka/ Shigeta?, Romanized: Kurita Shigetaka, May 9, 1972 -), also translated as "Kurita Shigetaka" and "Tanita Shigetaka", was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He is an interface designer and the inventor of Emoji. Now he is a member of KADOKAWA's Duowan Kingdom.

Sandro Botticelli (Italian: Sandro Botticelli, March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510), formerly known as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Italian: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi), was a Florentine school artist in the early European Renaissance.

Liang Shitai (?—?), a Cantonese, was one of the most important portrait photographers in China during the late Qing Dynasty. He specialized in portraits of high-ranking officials, as well as photos that would appeal to Chinese clients who favored literati paintings. As one of the first photographers to photograph important officials and other prominent figures of the Qing Dynasty, Liang Shitai's work first convinced the Qing court to accept photography as an artistic medium. In the early 1870s, he established his own studio in Hong Kong, then moved to Shanghai in the late 1870s and then to Tianjin in the 1880s. Leong Sze-tai's photographs are among the most historically significant and visually stunning of his time.

Daido Moriyama (October 10, 1938 -) is a Japanese photographer known for his strong black and white urban street photography.

Mori Hanae (Japanese: Mori Eike, Romanized: Mori Hanae, January 8, 1926 - August 11, 2022) was a Japanese fashion designer.

Eugène Delacroix (French: Eugène Delacroix, French pronunciation: [øʒɛn dəlakʁwa], April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was a famous French romantic painter.

Ou Jie, courtesy name Haonian (1935-April 25, 2024), was a representative ink painter of the Lingnan School and had considerable influence on Taiwanese ink painting. His creative themes cover landscapes and feathers, with rich and diverse forms and strong and vivid colors. He has been awarded the Grand Prize of the Biennale of the Grand Palais Museum in Paris by the French National Institute of Fine Arts, and honorary doctorates from Wonkwang University in South Korea, the University of Indianapolis in the United States, National Chung Hsing University, Fu Jen Catholic University, National Taiwan University of the Arts, National Donghua University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese Culture University.