Artists

Yuan Jiang (1671-1746), courtesy name Wentao and Xiuquan in his later years, was a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province and a landscape painter of the Qing Dynasty. His son Yuan Yao (some say he is his nephew) is also a painter. During the Yongzheng period, he was summoned to the court.

Yu Xunling (1874-1944) came from the Zhengbai Banner of the Eight Banners of the Han Army. He served as the second secretary of the Qing Dynasty Embassy in France. He was also the person in charge of the generator at the Summer Palace and even took photos of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Simone Bening, European artist of the Renaissance. Son of Sanders Bening and Flanders illustrator. Grima's Prayer Book Illustrations (now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York) is his most outstanding work.

Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 - March 20, 1979) was a French-American painter and illustrator whose artistic career was mainly active in Mexico and the United States.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: Jean-Michel Basquiat, French pronunciation: [ʒɑ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He first gained public recognition as a New York graffiti artist and later became a successful expressionist artist in the 1980s. Basquiat's works still deeply influence contemporary artists and are of great value.

Jean Fouquet (French: Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet, c. 1420-1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and illuminated manuscripts, the inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters between late Gothic art and the early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience the early Italian Renaissance firsthand.

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank Norman Robert Foster, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI, (Hong Kong translation of Huo Langming; English: Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, June 1, 1935 -), a British architect, graduated from the University of Manchester in 1961 and went to Yale University to study for a master's degree. Before forming Team Four with Richard Rogers, he worked for Fuller and founded his own firm, Foster Associates, in 1967. He received the Royal Gold Medal in 1983 and was knighted in 1990. In 1997, he was included in the Register of Distinguished Persons by the Queen of England and received the Order of Merit. In 1999, he was created a life peer, Baron Foster of Thames Bank. Huo Langming is a representative figure of high-tech architectural style and a master in the construction industry. He is best known for his design of commercial buildings for financial institutions and airport buildings. The Hong Kong HSBC Headquarters Building built in 1986 made him famous in the international architectural world. The subsequent Frankfurt Commerzbank and Hong Kong International Airport made his reputation reach its peak in the architectural world. He won the Stirling Award for the Imperial War Museum; in 2004, he won the award for the London skyscraper No. 30 St. Mary Aix, commonly known as the "Gherkin". He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice. He was also the 1999 Pritzker Prize winner. Because the Millennium Bridge was once closed due to excessive shaking, British tabloids dubbed it "Lord Wobbly".

Ieoh Ming Pei (English: Ieoh Ming Pei; signature: I. M. Pei; April 26, 1917 - May 16, 2019), a Chinese-American architect, winner of the 1983 Pritzker Prize, and is known as "the last master of high modernist architecture". Ieoh Ming Pei is a descendant of a prominent family in Suzhou. He was born in Panyu County, Guangdong Province, the Republic of China. His father Pei Zuyi was the president of the Central Bank of the Republic of China and one of the founders of the Bank of China. His biological mother, Zhuang, was the imperial eunuch of the Qing Dynasty. After drinking, Bei died of cancer when she was 13 years old; her stepmother, Jiang Shiyun, was the daughter of Jiang Lufu, the envoy of the Republic of China; Bei had an older sister, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters; his wife, Eileen Lu, Loo is a Chinese student studying in the United States. After marriage, he has three sons and one daughter. Among them, Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei are both famous American architects; his cousin Peggy Lam was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and the chairman of the Wan Chai District Council. I.M. Pei's works are mainly public buildings and cultural and educational buildings, which are classified as modernist buildings and make good use of steel, concrete, glass and stone. His representative works include the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Louvre Museum expansion project in Paris, France, the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong, the Republic of China Pavilion at the 1970 Japan World Expo, the Lucien Church of Tunghai University (co-designed with Chen Qikuan and executed by Chen Qikuan), the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Chinese Embassy in the United States. In the early morning of May 16, 2019, Ieoh Ming Pei passed away at his home in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 102. Pei devoted his life to architectural design and was still creating works until he was eighty years old. His last work was the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

Helmut Newton (October 31, 1920 - January 23, 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.

Zao Wou-Ki (February 13, 1920 - April 9, 2013) was a French-Chinese painter who was good at oil painting. He was born in Beijing, China, and his ancestral home was Dantu Dagang, Zhenjiang. Graduated from the National Hangzhou Art College and studied under the oil painters Fang Qianmin and Wu Dayu. In 2002, he was elected as an academician of the French Academy of Arts. Together with Chu Teh-Chun and Wu Guanzhong, he is known as the "Three Musketeers in France" in the Chinese art world.

Zhao Shao'ang, MBE (March 6, 1905 - January 28, 1998), formerly known as Yuan, courtesy name Shuyi, originally from Panyu, Guangdong, is a Chinese painter. Together with Li Xiongcai, Guan Shanyue and Yang Shanshen, they are known as the four famous masters of the second generation Lingnan School of Painting. Zhao studied under the master Gao Qifeng of the Lingnan School, and was also inspired by the famous Lingnan master Gao Jianfu. He devoted himself to modernizing the art of Chinese painting and had a profound impact on bringing Chinese painting to the world. Together with Gao Qifeng's other six sons Zhang Kunyi, Ye Shaobing, He Qiyuan, Rong Shushi, Huang Shaoqiang and Zhou Zhoufeng, they are called the "Seven Sons of Tianfeng". Zhao is good at painting flowers, birds, insects, fish, figures and animals, and landscapes. He is especially famous internationally for his flower-and-bird paintings.

Susie Zhao Chao, born on December 30, 1931, was born in Lubin County, Xing'an Province, and Zhaodong County, Nenjiang Province. He once served as a broadcaster, editor, and art designer of a Swiss textile printing and dyeing company. He also served as the general convener of the European branch of the World Association of Chinese Writers. He lives in Switzerland and specializes in writing. He is a member of PEN International and the Swiss National Writers Association, and serves as the vice president of the World Chinese Writers Association and the president and founder of the European Chinese Writers Association. His father is Zhao Xianwen, a legislator of the Republic of China.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969), formerly known as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies), born in Aachen, Germany, died in Chicago, United States, a German architect and a representative figure of modernist architectural design. From 1930 to 1933, he was the last principal of the Bauhaus School of Architecture in Dessau and Berlin, Germany.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (German: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein; April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who later became a British citizen. Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers in the 20th century. His research areas are mainly in logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophy of mathematics. From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at Cambridge University. He published few works during his lifetime, only the 1921 Tractatus Logic and Philosophy, an essay, a book review, and a dictionary for Austrian primary school students. A large number of his manuscripts were edited and published after his death, the most famous of which was "Philosophical Investigations" published in 1953, which is considered to have led a new direction in the philosophy of language. According to a survey, this book is considered one of the most important works of philosophy in the 20th century, and as "an interdisciplinary masterpiece of 20th century philosophy, it has attracted interest from different majors and philosophical directions." Wittgenstein's philosophy is often divided into early and late periods, with the early representative being the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the late representative being the Philosophical Investigations. "Early Wittgenstein's thought" focused on the logical structure between the world and propositions. At this time, Wittgenstein believed that we can solve all philosophical problems through such structures. But "late Wittgensteinian thought" rejected most of the assumptions in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, arguing that the meaning of words can only be better understood within a given language game. Wittgenstein was born into a wealthy family in Vienna and inherited a huge inheritance from his father in 1913. Before World War I, he "provided generous support to needy poets and artists selected by Ludwig von Fick, editor of Der Brenner magazine, among them Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the architect Adolf Loos." After World War I, Wittgenstein fell into depression, and he gave the remainder of his inheritance to his siblings. Wittgenstein had three older brothers who died by suicide; he left academia several times: as a frontline officer in World War I, where he was repeatedly commended for courage; as a primary school teacher in a remote Austrian village, he was controversial for his use of corporal punishment (especially in mathematics classes); during World War II, he worked as a porter in a London hospital, telling patients not to take the medicines prescribed by their doctors; and as a laboratory technician at the Royal Victoria Clinic in Newcastle upon Tyne. He later expressed these events

Louis Isadore Kahn (English: Louis Isadore Kahn, February 20, 1901 - March 14, 1974), formerly known as Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky, was an Estonian-Jewish American architect and architectural educator. He was born in Kuressaare, Estonia during the Tsarist Russia. In 1905, his family immigrated to the United States. He grew up in Philadelphia and became a U.S. citizen on May 15, 1914. After working for several companies in Pennsylvania, he established his own studio in 1935. From 1947 to 1957, while continuing his private practice, he served as professor of design criticism and architecture at Yale University. From 1957 until his death, he served as professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn's design style was deeply influenced by ancient ruins and tended towards grandeur. His works are considered monumental masterpieces that transcend modernism.

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, December 25, 1911 - May 31, 2010) was a French-American artist who was born in Paris, France and settled in the United States in 1938. He first created paintings and flat sculptures, and then engaged in sculpture art after the 1940s, using bronze, marble, latex and other materials as materials. His main works include "This and Others", "Stacking" series, "The Destruction of the Father", "Single Cell", "Woman and Suitcase", "Mother", "Cell", etc.

Dieter Rams (German: Dieter Rams, May 20, 1932 -) is a famous German industrial designer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He has a close relationship with the German home appliance manufacturer Braun and the functionalist design school.

Michael Joseph Winkelmann (English: Michael Joseph Winkelmann, June 20, 1981 -), better known by his pseudonym Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer and animator known for selling NFTs. He uses a variety of mediums in his art to create pieces that are comical, hallucinatory, and make political and social commentary while using pop culture figures as references. British auction house Christie's called him "a visionary digital artist at the forefront of NFT." Beeple entered the NFT space in October 2020 and credits Pak with providing his first "introduction" to selling NFTs. An NFT associated with Every Day: The First 5,000 Days, a collage from his Every Day series, was sold to NFT investors on March 12, 2021 for $69 million in cryptocurrency. This is the first virtual NFT auctioned by Christie’s. The auction house previously sold "Block 21" in October 2020 for about US$130,000, which was an NFT with a physical painting.

Deng Wei (April 13, 1959 - February 3, 2013), a native of Beijing, was a Chinese photographer, professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. Hon FRPS, Honorary Senior Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. His videos of Chinese cultural figures and portraits of world celebrities shot around the world are the most famous. Many of his works have been collected by several national art galleries, museums and libraries at home and abroad.

Xing Danwen (1967-) is a Chinese contemporary artist and photographer.

Qiu Jie (1961-) was born in Shanghai, China. His pseudonym is Foreign Country Shanren. He is an artist who combines Chinese realism with various European schools of thought.

Yu Feng (July 25, 1916 - April 15, 2007), female, originally from Fuyang, Zhejiang, was born in Beijing, a Chinese essayist and painter, and served as secretary of the Secretariat and executive director of the Chinese Artists Association. His father Yu Hua is a Chinese judge and the brother of Yu Dafu. Her husband Huang Miaozi is a painter.

Jin Hongdao, courtesy name Shineng, also known as Danyuan, Danqiu, Xihu, Gaomianjushi, Zuihuashi, and Zhenzuiweng. He was originally from the Kim family of Jinhae and was a painter in the late Joseon Dynasty.

Kim Deok-shin (Korean: Kim Deuk-shin; 1754-1822), also known as Hyunfu (Korean: Hyeonbo), also known as Jinjae (Korean: positive) and Hongwolxuan (Korean: red Wolheon), Bengwan Kaesong Kim family, a painter in the late Joseon Dynasty and the son of the court painter Kim Eung-roo. He was also a painter in the palace painting department. Together with Kim Hong-do, he was also famous for painting genre paintings. He is famous for his figure paintings and genre paintings. He is known as Sanjae together with Shim Si-jeong (Hyeonjae) and Jeong Joo of Joseon Dynasty. Most of his works are collected in Deoksugung Museum of Art, Korea University Museum and Gansong Museum of Art.