Artists

Michelangelo, whose full name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, also translated as Michelangelo and Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. He was known as the "Three Masters of Renaissance Art" along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael Sanzio. He was famous for his "fitness" in his characters, and even the female body was depicted with strong muscles. His sculpture "David" is world-famous. The four statues of "Day", "Night", "Morning" and "Dusk" in front of the Medici family tomb are novel in conception. In addition, famous sculptures include "Statue of Moses", "The Great Slave", etc. His most famous paintings are the "Genesis" ceiling painting and the fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He also designed and initially built St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, and designed and built the mausoleum of Pope Julius II. Michelangelo had a bad temper, was unsociable, could not get along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and often contradicted his benefactor. However, he pursued artistic perfection throughout his life and insisted on his own artistic ideas. Michelangelo was born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence in 1475 and died in Rome in 1564 at the age of 88. His style influenced artists for almost three centuries.

Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (English: Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, 1968-), female, Mexican New Image painter living in the United States. She is the youngest female painter in Mexico to hold an independent exhibition at the country's Museum of Modern Art.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English: Joseph Mallord William Turner, April 23, 1775 - December 19, 1851) was a British printmaker and watercolor painter during the Romantic period. He was famous for his rich use of color, landscape paintings and marine art. His artistic style evolved over time, moving away from Romanticism and skipping over the rise of realism at the time, culminating in later works that foreshadowed the emergence of Impressionism and abstraction, movements that would flourish in the decades after his death. He left more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors and 30,000 works on paper during his lifetime. From 1840 onwards, he was highly praised by the art critic John Ruskin, and today he is widely regarded as an important artist who elevated landscape painting to the same level as historical painting. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, from a lower-middle-class family. He retained the accent unique to this class throughout his life and deliberately avoided the aura and social circle that came with becoming famous. In 1789, Turner entered the Royal Academy of Art, where he exhibited his works for the first time at the age of 15. During this period he also worked as an architectural draftsman. Turner maintained a stable income by accepting commissions and selling works, but due to his withdrawn and rebellious personality, he was often reluctant to sell paintings. In 1804 he opened his own gallery and served as professor of perspective at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1828. Since 1802, he traveled around Europe many times, bringing back a large number of sketchbooks from each trip. Introverted, eccentric and maverick, Turner was surrounded by controversy throughout his life. He never married, but he had two daughters with the widow Sarah Danby: Evelina (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843). After his father's death in 1829, he became more pessimistic and melancholy, the gallery gradually became deserted, and his painting style became more intense. In 1841, he rowed into the Thames to avoid being registered at any address in the census that year. From 1845 onwards, he lived in a state of extreme poverty and deteriorating health, eventually dying in London in 1851 at the age of 76. He is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch: Johannes Vermeer, October 31, 1632 - December 15, 1675), also known as Jan Vermeer and Johan Vermeer, was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Delft, the Netherlands, and is sometimes called Vermeer van Delft. Since their rediscovery in the 19th century, Vermeer and Rembrandt are often cited together as the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Their works feature transparent color, rigorous composition, and clever use of light and shadow. Vermeer was good at accurately depicting a limited space, beautifully expressing the light and shadow effects of the object itself and the reality and texture of the characters.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (English: Roy Fox Lichtenstein /ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/, October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American Pop Art artist. His works often feature cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, etc. as the protagonists. Later, he imitated popular comic strips and created a number of love paintings with girls as the theme and war paintings with aerial combat as the content. Lichtenstein has studied the works of Mondrian, Matisse, Cézanne, Monet, American de Kooning, Pallock, Remington and others, as well as Eastern art. He also invented the dot painting method. Known for parodying the works of other painters.

Robert Capa (English: Robert Capa, October 22, 1913 - May 25, 1954), formerly known as Friedmann Endre Ernő (Hungarian: Friedmann Endre Ernő), also known as André Friedman (André Friedmann), a Hungarian-American photojournalist, was one of the most famous war photojournalists in the 20th century. He participated in the coverage of five major wars that took place in the 20th century: including the Spanish Civil War, the Anti-Japanese War in China, the European Theater of World War II, the First Middle East War, and the First Indo-China War. During World War II, Capa followed the U.S. Army and covered military operations in North Africa and Italy, the Battle of Omaha Beach in Normandy, and the liberation of Paris. Capa is considered one of the masters of the "Decisive Moment". His works reproduce the cruelty and violence of war through condensed moments, which are prominently displayed in several of his masterpieces. In 1947, he and Bresson, the advocate of the "Decisive Moment", founded the famous Magnum Photo Agency, becoming the world's first cooperative organization of freelance photographers.

Lorenzo Lotto was an Italian Renaissance painter, draftsman, and illustrator who was traditionally of the Venetian school, but spent most of his career in other cities in northern Italy. He mainly painted altarpieces, religious themes and portraits.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 1472 - October 16, 1553) was a German Renaissance painter. His son Lucas Cranach the Younger was also an outstanding painter. Cranach was born in Cronach in Franconia, where his surname comes from. He received painting training in his early years. He was active in Vienna around 1500 and attracted the attention of the humanist circle. In 1505, he was hired by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, to become the court painter of Wittenberg. He established a large-scale workshop locally and trained many assistants and apprentices, so that his works could be produced and circulated in large quantities. During the Reformation, Cranach had a close relationship with Martin Luther. He painted numerous portraits of Luther and other Protestant leaders, and participated in the creation of Protestant propaganda engravings. His artistic style combines the characteristics of late Gothic art and Northern Renaissance, with slender and elegant figures and bright colors. He is especially famous for female nudes and mythological and biblical themes such as "Adam and Eve". Before 1508, he painted many altarpieces for the Wittenberg Castle Church, competing with artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Hans Burgmeier. In addition to artistic creation, Cranach was also actively involved in local public affairs and served as a city councilor and mayor of Wittenberg. In his later years, he moved to Augsburg and Weimar with the Electorate of Saxony due to war, and finally died in Weimar in 1553. Cranach's artistic influence was profound, and his son, Lucas Cranach Jr., inherited and continued the creative tradition of the family workshop. Today, his works are collected in many important museums in Europe, including the Uffizi Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States, and the Liechtenstein Museum.

Joan Miró (Catalan: Joan Miró i Ferrà [ʒuˈan miˈɾoj fəˈra], April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and printmaker, and a representative figure of Surrealism. Miró, Picasso and Dali are among the three major postmodern artists in Spain. The Miró Museum of Fine Arts in Montjuïc, Barcelona, ​​Miro's hometown, houses Miró's works. In 1975, Barcelona also established the Fundació Joan Miró, which specializes in collecting his works. In 1981, the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró) was established in Parma, the city where he lived for a long time. Miró won international acclaim for his unique artistic style. His works are generally considered to belong to the category of Surrealism, but his style is highly individual, sometimes showing Fauvist and Expressionist tendencies. He is particularly concerned with the unconscious or subconscious world, and this artistic interest is most evident in his representation of the quality of childlike innocence. At the same time, there is a strong sense of Catalan pride in his unclassifiable works. In numerous interviews since the 1930s, Miró had been an outspoken critic of traditional painting methods as a tool to prop up bourgeois society, and claimed to "kill painting" to break the established visual rules of painting. Since childhood, Miró has been very passionate about natural scenery, especially the place where he grew up. Painting seems to be a routine job for him, who is quiet and sensitive. His father was very interested in astronomy, and this interest also influenced Miró to some extent. At the same time, he also has a keen interest in art. He likes to draw women, birds, the sun, stars, etc., and uses his own symbols and color blocks to form his own unique personal style.

Hu Zaobin (1897-September 18, 1942), a native of Shunde, Guangdong, also known as Hanqing, also known as Jingguanlouzhu, was a painter in the mainland period of the Republic of China. He was good at painting tigers.

Ai Jing (September 10, 1969 -), Han nationality, Chinese pop singer, painter and artist. At the end of 1992, he became popular with the song "My 1997", which he wrote, played and sang.

Ai Weiwei (May 18, 1957 -), Chinese artist, native of Jinhua County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province (now Jindong District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province), son of poet Ai Qing. Born in Beijing, he lived in the United States for 12 years, then returned to Beijing to live for more than 20 years, and then lived in Germany and Europe. Active in the fields of architecture, art, video and social and cultural criticism.

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist mainly engaged in sculpture and installation art creation. She also dabbles in painting, performance art, video art, fashion, poetry and novels. Her work is based on conceptual art, incorporating elements of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, alternative art, pop art and abstract expressionism, and contains autobiographical, psychological and sexual themes. She is recognized as one of Japan's most important artists, the world's best-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work also influenced contemporary artists including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Philip Guston, American artist. In his early days, he often painted social realism of the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1950s, he became a representative painter of abstract expressionism with de Kooning and others. In the late 1960s, he began to experiment with new figurative works, bridging pop art and neo-expressionism to express the alienation of He's life in the 1970s. His works present a characteristic of American culture: what you see is what you understand. Guston's works from the 1970s are full of rough and hostile emotions on the surface. They not only describe some critical social and political issues, especially the situation in the United States during the Vietnam War, but also express his understanding of life. Represented as "Bedside Couple".

Philippe Patrick Starck (French: Philippe Patrick Starck, January 18, 1949 -) is a French designer born in Paris. The fields of his design works include architecture, furniture design, daily necessities design, transportation product design and interior design, etc., which are quite extensive.

Sam Tata (September 30, 1911 - July 3, 2005) was a photographer and photojournalist who lived in Shanghai.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí-Domenech, Marquis of Pupol, commonly referred to as Salvador Dalí, is a famous Spanish Catalan painter, famous for his surrealist works. He, Picasso and Miro are considered to be the three most representative Spanish painters of the 20th century.

Saturnino Herrán (1887-1918), Mexican painter. Born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. In 1903, his father died. Two years later, the family moved to Mexico City. In 1912, at the age of 25, Holland met his wife, Rosari Arellano.

Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai, October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849), whose real name was Tokitarō (Tokitarō/Tokitaro, Tetsuzō), was a native of Edo, Japan, an artist at the end of the Edo period, and a representative figure of Kasei culture. Katsushika Hokusai was versatile, and his works spanned printmaking, ink painting, dyeing, book illustrations, etc. Among them, the ukiyo-e "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and "Hokusai Manga", which has been published for 64 years, are his most representative works.

Cai Guoqiang (December 8, 1957 -) is a Chinese artist famous for his gunpowder blasting artistic creation method. Born in Huiyu Island, Quangang District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, he currently lives in New York and New Jersey, United States, where he engages in creative work.

Jiang Xun (January 8, 1947 -) was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in Changle, Fujian, and grew up in Taipei. He is a well-known painter and writer in the Republic of China. He was the director of the Fine Arts Department of Tunghai University and the president of United Literature Publishing House.

Vivian Maier (English: Vivian Maier, February 1, 1926 - April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer. Her main job was as a nanny. Vivienne is of French descent. She was born in New York but grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she lived in New York and Chicago. She took more than 100,000 photos in her life. In 2007, local historian John Maloof discovered a large number of her negatives and began organizing them. After Vivian's death, due to Maloof's arrangement, her works began to appear in newspapers in the United States, Italy, Argentina and the United Kingdom. In 2010, Vivian's works began to be exhibited in Chicago. She became a hotly discussed figure in the photography circle and was recognized as one of the most important contemporary street photographers in the United States.

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (English: Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid; Arabic: زها حديد, October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016, Hong Kong translation Saha Hadi, Taiwan translation Zaha Hadi), was born in Baghdad, Iraq, an Iraqi-British architect who later settled in the United Kingdom. In 2004, she became the first female architect to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She won the Stirling Prize, the highest honor in British architecture, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was awarded the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her architectural achievements. In 2015, she became the first and only woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The above achievements have made her famous in the international architectural community. In addition to architectural awards, the media also gave her high praise. For example, the London Guardian called her the "Queen of the curve." The New York Times praised her for "liberating architectural geometry and giving it a new form of expression." National Geographic magazine called her "the devil from the architectural world." Her major works include the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 London Olympics, the Eli and Edith Broad Museum of Michigan State University in the United States, the Guangzhou Grand Theater in mainland China, and the National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, Italy. Some architectural works were completed when she passed away, including the 2017 BRIT Awards statue; some were completed after her death, such as the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, Beijing Daxing International Airport in mainland China, and the Tamjiang Bridge in Taiwan.

Su Ngoc Van is a Vietnamese painter. During the First Indochina War, he taught art classes in northern Vietnam and was killed at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In 1996 he was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize.