Artist a Day: Jenny Saville
Jennifer Anne Saville is a contemporary British artist. She is a member of the Young British Artists, and she is known for her large-scale painted portrayals of nude women.
Jennifer Anne Saville is a contemporary British artist. She is a member of the Young British Artists, and she is known for her large-scale painted portrayals of nude women.
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian artist and art theorist exploring the avant-garde movement. His pioneering work and writing affected the evolution of non-objective art in the 20th century.
Edward Hopper was a realist painter and also printmaker who lived in America. While he is commonly known for his oil paintings, he was equally talented in etching as a watercolorist and printmaker.
Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter. He studied Roman archeology and was a son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. He was famous for using perspective techniques in engravings, paintings, and frescoes.
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist recognized for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas even produced bronze sculptures toward the end of his life.
Artist Georges Seurat is known for creating the Pointillist method of painting, using small dot-like strokes of color in artworks.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, known simply as Salvador Dali. Dali was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. He was a Spanish surrealist artist famous for technical mastery.
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, scene designer, photographer, and graphic painter. He is viewed as one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century.
Max Ernst was a German artist. He was considered a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. Ernst was an immediate pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism.
Simone Martini was an artist and painter born in Siena, Italy. He was a central figure in the growth of early Italian painting and strongly impacted the growth of the International Gothic style.