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List of famous Cubism artists, with images, bios, and information about their notable works. All the greatest artists associated with the Cubism movement are included here, along with clickable names for more details on that particular painter or sculptor. You might also enjoy weird personal quirks of iconic artists and famous dada artists. These notable Cubism period artists are organized by popularity, so the best artists are at the top of the list. If you think the best Cubism artist isn't as high as they should be then be sure to give them an upvote.

Cubism was developed by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and George Braque and went on to become maybe the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The abstract style came out of the idea that art should not have to copy nature. The artwork created as part of the cubism movement are some of the most loved and famous pieces of all time. 

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  • Pablo Picasso
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    Pablo Picasso

    Pablo Ruiz Picasso (UK: , US: , Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
    • Artworks: Guernica, The Old Guitarist, Family of Saltimbanques, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Las Meninas (after Velázquez)
    • Birthplace: Spain, Málaga
    • Associated periods or movements: Picasso's African Period, Analytic cubism, Cubism, Picasso's Rose Period, Picasso's Blue Period
    • Nationality: Spain
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Ceramic art, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
    649 votes
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    Pablo Picasso's Greatest Works of Art

    • Guernica
      1Guernica
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    • The Old Guitarist
      2The Old Guitarist
      451 Votes
    • Girl before a Mirror
      3Girl before a Mirror
      276 Votes
  • Georges Braque
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    Georges Braque

    Georges Braque (; French: [bʁak]; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.
    • Artworks: Woman with a Guitar, Still Life with a Bottle, Violin and Candlestick, The Guitar (Statue d'epouvante), Man with a Guitar
    • Birthplace: Argenteuil, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Analytic cubism, Cubism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
    393 votes
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  • Juan Gris
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    Juan Gris

    José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈɡɾis]; French: [gʀi]), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
    • Artworks: Harlequin with Guitar, Glass of Beer and Playing Cards, Violin and Checkerboard, Portrait of Picasso, Guitar and Glasses
    • Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
    • Associated periods or movements: Analytic cubism, Cubism, Synthetic cubism
    • Nationality: Spain
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting
    272 votes
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  • André Lhote
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    André Lhote

    André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
    • Artworks: Port de Bordeaux
    • Birthplace: Bordeaux, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    171 votes
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  • Albert Gleizes
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    Albert Gleizes

    Albert Gleizes (French: [glɛz]; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912. Gleizes was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists. He was also a member of Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were given thoughtful consideration. Gleizes spent four crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making America aware of modern art. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, founder of the Ernest-Renan Association, and both a founder and participant in the Abbaye de Créteil. Gleizes exhibited regularly at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie de l’Effort Moderne in Paris; he was also a founder, organizer and director of Abstraction-Création. From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s much of his energy went into writing, e.g., La Peinture et ses lois (Paris, 1923), Vers une conscience plastique: La Forme et l’histoire (Paris, 1932) and Homocentrisme (Sablons, 1937).
    • Artworks: La Femme aux Phlox, La Chasse, Paysage, The Transfiguration, Man on a Balcony
    • Birthplace: Paris, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Impressionism, Abstract art, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    258 votes
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  • Jean Metzinger
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    Jean Metzinger

    Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neo-impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works. From 1908 Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His early involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and an important theorist of the movement. The idea of moving around an object in order to see it from different view-points is treated, for the first time, in Metzinger's Note sur la Peinture, published in 1910. Before the emergence of Cubism, painters worked from the limiting factor of a single view-point. Metzinger, for the first time, in Note sur la peinture, enunciated the interest in representing objects as remembered from successive and subjective experiences within the context of both space and time. Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes wrote the first major treatise on Cubism in 1912, entitled Du "Cubisme". Metzinger was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists. Metzinger was at the center of Cubism both because of his participation and identification of the movement when it first emerged, because of his role as intermediary among the Bateau-Lavoir group and the Section d'Or Cubists, and above all because of his artistic personality. During the First World War Metzinger furthered his role as a leading Cubist with his co-founding of the second phase of the movement, referred to as Crystal Cubism. He recognized the importance of mathematics in art, through a radical geometrization of form as an underlying architectural basis for his wartime compositions. The establishing of the basis of this new perspective, and the principles upon which an essentially non-representational art could be built, led to La Peinture et ses lois (Painting and its Laws), written by Albert Gleizes in 1922–23. As post-war reconstruction began, a series of exhibitions at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie de L'Effort Moderne were to highlight order and allegiance to the aesthetically pure. The collective phenomenon of Cubism—now in its advanced revisionist form—became part of a widely discussed development in French culture, with Metzinger at its helm. Crystal Cubism was the culmination of a continuous narrowing of scope in the name of a return to order; based upon the observation of the artist's relation to nature, rather than on the nature of reality itself. In terms of the separation of culture and life, this period emerges as the most important in the history of Modernism.For Metzinger, the classical vision had been an incomplete representation of real things, based on an incomplete set of laws, postulates and theorems. He believed the world was dynamic and changing in time, that it appeared different depending on the point of view of the observer. Each of these viewpoints were equally valid according to underlying symmetries inherent in nature. For inspiration, Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist and one of the principle founders of quantum mechanics, hung in his office a large painting by Metzinger, La Femme au Cheval, a conspicuous early example of "mobile perspective" implementation (also called simultaneity).
    • Artworks: L'Oiseau bleu, Femme assise (Woman with Book), Landscape, Still Life, Woman with Fan
    • Birthplace: Nantes, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Divisionism, Cubism, Neo-impressionism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    183 votes
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  • Paul Cézanne
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    Paul Cézanne

    Paul Cézanne (US: or UK: ; French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all".
    • Artworks: The Basket of Apples, The Large Bathers, Still Life with Apples, Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair, Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue
    • Birthplace: Aix-en-Provence, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Impressionism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
    231 votes
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  • Paul Klee
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    Paul Klee

    Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
    • Artworks: Angelus Novus, Revolution des Viadukts, Der Goldfisch, Garten der Leidenschaft (Garden of Passion), Little Castle in the Air
    • Birthplace: Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
    • Associated periods or movements: German Expressionism, Der Blaue Reiter, Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism
    • Nationality: Germany
    • Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
    234 votes
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  • Salvador Dalí
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    Salvador Dalí

    Salvador Dalí, born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, emerged as one of the most iconic figures in Surrealist art. A master of provocation and paradox, Dalí's influence spread beyond the realm of painting and encompassed sculpture, cinema, fashion, and theater. The son of a lawyer and notary, Dalí attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he honed his technique and began to develop his unique style. Dalí's artistic journey was never devoid of controversy or innovation. He found inspiration in the works of Renaissance masters while incorporating dreamlike elements through his exploration of psychoanalysis. One of his most remarkable pieces, The Persistence of Memory, featuring melting clocks in an eerily desolate landscape, is a testament to Dalí's fascination with the subconscious mind. Dalí's association with the Surrealist movement, however, was short-lived due to ideological differences, leading to his expulsion in 1934. Despite life's many adversities, including his wife Gala's death and his declining health, Dalí remained unshakeable in his commitment to art. His later works revealed a keen interest in science, religion, and mysticism. Through his unconventional artwork and flamboyant personality, Salvador Dalí left an indelible mark on the world of art. His legacy continues to inspire artists and captivate audiences worldwide. His contribution to Surrealism and the broader art world remains unmatched, making him one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century.
    • Artworks: The Persistence of Memory, Galatea of the Spheres, The Burning Giraffe, Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Tuna Fishing
    • Birthplace: Spain, Figueres
    • Associated periods or movements: Dada, Cubism, Surrealism
    • Nationality: Spain
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Photography, Painting, Drawing
    236 votes
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  • Alexandra Nechita
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    Alexandra Nechita

    Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a Romanian American cubist painter and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Petite Picasso" by the media and the art community and is widely acclaimed for her paintings and vision of art.
    • Artworks: 40 Minutes Line Drawing, Holidays Are Here Again, Manicurist / Hairdresser, Peace Within Me, Coffee Culture
    • Birthplace: Vaslui, Romania
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: United States of America, Romania
    • Art Forms: Painting
    179 votes
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  • Lyubov Popova
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    Lyubov Popova

    Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (Russian: Любо́вь Серге́евна Попо́ва; April 24, 1889 – May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer.
    • Artworks: Subject From a Dyer's Shop, Painterly Architectonic
    • Birthplace: Russian Empire
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubo-Futurism, Cubism, Suprematism
    • Nationality: Russia
    • Art Forms: Painting
    92 votes
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  • Lyonel Feininger
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    Lyonel Feininger

    Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He was also a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the USA and Germany. At the age of 36, he started to work as a fine artist. He also produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 and the mid 1950s, but he kept these primarily within his circle of friends. He was also a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
    • Artworks: Longeuil, Normandie, Spook I, Der Ostchor des Domes zu Halle, Village
    • Birthplace: New York City, New York
    • Associated periods or movements: German Expressionism, Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Cubism, Expressionism
    • Nationality: United States of America, Germany
    • Art Forms: Painting
    96 votes
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  • Fernand Léger
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    Fernand Léger

    Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.
    • Artworks: The Baluster, Woman with a Book, Three Women, Mural Painting, The Divers
    • Birthplace: Argentan, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Modernism, Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France, French Third Republic
    • Art Forms: Painting, Printmaking
    119 votes
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  • Robert Delaunay
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    Robert Delaunay

    Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone.
    • Artworks: Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon, The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel, Windows, Champs de Mars: The Red Tower
    • Birthplace: Paris, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or, Expressionism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    130 votes
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  • Natalia Goncharova
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    Natalia Goncharova

    Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvnə ɡənʲtɕɪˈrovə]; June 21, 1881 – October 17, 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was also a fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Larionov invented Rayonism (1912–1914). She was also a member of the German based art movement known as Der Blaue Reiter. Born in Russia, she moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death. Her painting vastly influenced the avant-garde in Russia. Her exhibition held in Moscow and St. Petersburg (1913 and 1914) were the first promoting a “new” artist by an independent gallery. When it comes to the pre-revolutionary period in Russia, where decorative painting and icons were a secure profession, her modern approach to rendering icons were both transgressive and problematic. Her work is usually considered too culturally specific to her Slavic heritage to be universally figured as avant-garde.
    • Birthplace: Russia
    • Associated periods or movements: Der Blaue Reiter, Cubism
    • Nationality: France, Russia
    • Art Forms: Painting
    76 votes
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  • Jacques Lipchitz
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    Jacques Lipchitz

    Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891 – 26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson.
    • Artworks: Figure, Seated Figure, Portrait de Raymond Radiguet, Draped Woman, Rape of Europa
    • Birthplace: Druskininkai, Lithuania
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: France, Lithuania, United States of America
    • Art Forms: Sculpture
    61 votes
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  • Raymond Duchamp-Villon
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    Raymond Duchamp-Villon

    Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, the second son of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. Of the six Duchamp children, four would become successful artists. He was the brother of Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter, printmaker; Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor and author; Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter.
    • Artworks: The Horse, Horse, Torso of a Young Man, Song, Baudelaire
    • Birthplace: Rouen, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    48 votes
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  • Kazimir Malevich
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    Kazimir Malevich

    Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23 [O.S. 11] 1879 – May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to an ethnic Polish family, his concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Malevich is considered to be part of the Ukrainian avant-garde (together with Alexander Archipenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster, and David Burliuk) that was shaped by Ukrainian-born artists who worked first in Ukraine and later over a geographical span between Europe and America.Early on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism, and after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal of pure abstraction to its logical conclusion. In addition to his paintings, Malevich laid down his theories in writing, such as "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism" (1915) and The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism (1926).Malevich's trajectory in many ways mirrored the tumult of the decades surrounding the October Revolution (O.S.) in 1917. In its immediate aftermath, vanguard movements such as Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin's Constructivism were encouraged by Trotskyite factions in the government. Malevich held several prominent teaching positions and received a solo show at the Sixteenth State Exhibition in Moscow in 1919. His recognition spread to the West with solo exhibitions in Warsaw and Berlin in 1927. Upon his return, modern art was falling out of favor with the new government of Joseph Stalin. Malevich soon lost his teaching position, artworks and manuscripts were confiscated, and he was banned from making art. In 1930, he was imprisoned for two months due to suspicions raised by his trip to Poland and Germany. Forced to abandon abstraction, he painted in a representational style in the years before his death from cancer in 1935, at the age of 56. Nonetheless, his art and his writing influenced contemporaries such as El Lissitzky, Lyubov Popova and Alexander Rodchenko, as well as generations of later abstract artists, such as Ad Reinhardt and the Minimalists. He was celebrated posthumously in major exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art (1936), the Guggenheim Museum (1973) and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1989), which has a large collection of his work. In the 1990s, the ownership claims of museums to many Malevich works began to be disputed by his heirs.
    • Artworks: Self Portrait, Lady on a Tram Station, Painterly Realism. Boy with Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, Dynamic Suprematism, On the Boulevard
    • Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
    • Associated periods or movements: Geometric abstraction, Cubism, Suprematism
    • Nationality: Ukraine, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
    • Art Forms: Painting
    67 votes
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  • Roger de La Fresnaye
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    Roger de La Fresnaye

    Roger de La Fresnaye (French: [ʁɔʒe də la fʁɛnɛ]; 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter.
    • Artworks: The Conquest of the Air
    • Birthplace: Le Mans, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    91 votes
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  • Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
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    Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

    Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
    • Artworks: Wrestlers, Sepulchral Figure, Seated Woman, The Idiot, Birds Erect
    • Birthplace: Orléans, France
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
    102 votes
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  • Gino Severini
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    Gino Severini

    Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.
    • Artworks: Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, Visual Synthesis of the Idea: "War", Armored Train in Action, The Boulevard, Italian Lancers at a Gallop
    • Birthplace: Cortona, Italy
    • Associated periods or movements: Divisionism, Return to order, Neoclassicism, Cubism, Futurism
    • Nationality: Italy
    • Art Forms: Mosaic, Fresco
    71 votes
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  • Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his emotionally charged raw imagery and fixation on personal motifs. Best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends, his abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cages which give them vague 3D depth, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers c. 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed, typically focuses on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on single motifs; including the 1930s Picasso-influenced bio-morphs and Furies, the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s screaming popes, the mid-to-late 1950s animals and lone figures, the early 1960s crucifixions, the mid to late 1960s portraits of friends, the 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler more technical 1980s paintings. Bacon took up painting in his twenties, having drifted in the late 1920s and early 1930s as an interior decorator, bon vivant and gambler. He said that his artistic career was delayed because he spent too long looking for subject matter that could sustain his interest. His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which sealed his reputation as a uniquely bleak chronicler of the human condition. From the mid-1960s he mainly produced portraits of friends and drinking companions, either as single or triptych panels. Following the suicide of his lover George Dyer in 1971 his art became more sombre, inward-looking and preoccupied with the passage of time and death. The climax of this later period is marked by masterpieces, including his 1982's "Study for Self-Portrait" and Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86. Despite his bleak existentialist outlook, Bacon in person was charismatic, articulate, and well-read. A bon vivant, he spent his middle age eating, drinking and gambling in London's Soho with like-minded friends including Lucian Freud (though the two fell out in the mid-1970s, for reasons neither ever explained), John Deakin, Muriel Belcher, Henrietta Moraes, Daniel Farson, Tom Baker, and Jeffrey Bernard. After Dyer's suicide he largely distanced himself from this circle, and while his social life was still active and his passion for gambling and drinking continued, he settled into a platonic and somewhat fatherly relationship with his eventual heir, John Edwards. Willem de Kooning described Bacon as "the most important painter of the disquieting human figure in the 50s of the 20th century." He was the subject of two Tate retrospectives and a major showing in 1971 at the Grand Palais. Since his death Bacon's reputation and market value have grown steadily, and his work is among the most acclaimed, expensive and sought-after. In the late 1990s a number of major works, previously assumed destroyed, including early 1950s popes and 1960s portraits, reemerged to set record prices at auction. In 2013 his Three Studies of Lucian Freud set the world record as the most expensive piece of art sold at auction.
    • Artworks: Painting (1946), Figure with Meat, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Figure in a landscape, Composition (Figure)
    • Birthplace: Republic of Ireland, Dublin
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism
    • Nationality: United Kingdom
    • Art Forms: Painting
    110 votes
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  • Auguste Herbin
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    Auguste Herbin

    Auguste Herbin (29 April 1882 – 31 January 1960) was a French painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. He co-founded the groups Abstraction-Création and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which promoted non-figurative abstract art.
    • Artworks: Composition
    • Birthplace: Quiévy, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Impressionism, Abstract art
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Collage, Painting, Printmaking
    77 votes
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  • Louis Marcoussis
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    Louis Marcoussis

    Louis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, (1878 or 1883, Łódź – October 22, 1941, Cusset) was a painter and engraver of Polish origin who lived in Paris for much of his life and became a French citizen. After studying law briefly in Warsaw he went to the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers included Jan Stanislawski and Jozev Mehoffer. Moving to Paris in 1903, he spent a short time at the Académie Julian under Jules Lefebvre. The first time a painting of his was shown in a major exhibition was at the Salon d'Automne in 1905, and over the next quarter-century his work was shown in many other important exhibitions, in particular at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries. He drew cartoons for satirical journals, as he had earlier in Poland. In Paris he needed to earn his own living, and also took on other drawing and illustration work. In the cafés of Montmartre and Montparnasse he got to know Apollinaire, Braque, Degas, Picasso and many more artists and writers. It was Apollinaire who suggested Markus' French name, Marcoussis, after a village not far from Paris. Impressionism influenced his early paintings, but from about 1911 he was part of the Cubist movement alongside other avant-garde painters like Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and those of the Section d'Or. His work was shown in exhibitions in many European cities and in the US. In 1925 he had his first solo exhibition in Paris. As well as painting still lifes and musical instruments in the Cubist manner, he also produced portraits, views of Paris, and images from the Breton seaside. In 1913 he had married Alice Halicka, a painter who came from Kraków. Their daughter Malène was born in 1922. Marcoussis served in a Polish company of the French Foreign Legion from 1914-1919. He became a French citizen, while also staying in touch with Poland, both personally and professionally. He did not generally talk about his Jewish ancestry, and his family had converted to Catholicism, but today Marcoussis is often described as a Jewish artist. From 1930 onwards, much as his friend Clément Serveau, he concentrated on printmaking and illustration, including work inspired by Apollinaire's Alcool, Tzara's Indicateur des chemins de cœur, and Éluard's Lingères légères and Aurélia. In the late 1930s Marcoussis collaborated with Spanish surrealist Joan Miró and taught him etching techniques, culminating in Miró's Black and Red Series, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He also taught at the Académie Schlaefer. After Nazi troops arrived in Paris in 1940, Marcoussis and Alice moved to Cusset near Vichy. He died there on 22 October 1941.
    • Artworks: The Glass of Absinthe, The Cello
    • Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    37 votes
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  • Alexander Archipenko
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    Alexander Archipenko

    Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; Ukrainian: Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; May 30, 1887 – February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-born American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.
    • Artworks: Woman Combing Her Hair, Gondolier, Torso in Space, Glass on a Table, Reclining Torso
    • Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: United States of America
    • Art Forms: Sculpture
    99 votes
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  • Julio González
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    Julio González

    Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 - 27 March 1942) was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture.
    • Artworks: Head, Woman Combing Her Hair, Masque, Long-Stemmed Head, Petite faucille (femme debout) (Small Sickle [Woman Standing])
    • Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: Spain
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting
    66 votes
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  • Jacques Villon
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    Jacques Villon

    Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.
    • Artworks: Large Mowing Machine with Horses, Title Unknown (Musical Instruments)
    • Birthplace: Damville, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    74 votes
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  • Patrick Henry Bruce
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    Patrick Henry Bruce

    Patrick Henry Bruce (March 25, 1881 – November 12, 1936) was an American cubist painter.
    • Artworks: Still Life, Painting
    • Birthplace: Virginia
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: United States of America
    • Art Forms: Painting
    47 votes
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  • Alexander Bogomazov
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    Alexander Bogomazov

    Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov (Russian: Александр Константинович Богомазов, Ukrainian: Олександр Костянтинович Богомазов; April 7, 1880 – June 3, 1930) was a Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art theoretician of the Russian Avant-garde (historically the term "Russian Avant-garde" refers to the art of all countries which were parts of Russia/USSR in the beginning of the 20th century). In 1914, Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements. In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist, Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical foundation of modern art. During his artistic life Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The most known are Cubo-Futurism (1913–1917) and Spectralism (1920–1930).
    • Birthplace: Russian Empire
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Futurism
    • Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
    36 votes
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  • Marcel Janco
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    Marcel Janco

    Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara, the Romanian art magazine Simbolul. Janco was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Futurism and Expressionism before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism.
    • Artworks: Composition with Red Arrow
    • Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania
    • Associated periods or movements: Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism, Dada, Art Deco, Cubism
    • Nationality: Israel, Romania
    • Art Forms: Collage, Fresco, Relief, Ceramic art, Painting
    42 votes
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  • María Blanchard
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    María Blanchard

    María Blanchard (born María Gutiérrez Cueto 6 March 1881 – 5 April 1932), was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.
    • Artworks: LE DÉJEUNER, LA GOURMANDISE, Femme assise, L'enfant au bol, or La tasse de chocolat
    • Birthplace: Santander, Spain
    • Art Forms: Painting
    54 votes
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  • Guy de Montlaur
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    Guy de Montlaur

    Guy Joseph Marie de Villardi comte de Montlaur (9 September 1918, Biarritz — 10 August 1977, Garches) was a French painter from the Languedoc family of Montlaur.He was a resistance fighter in WW2, he landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944 with the 1er BFMC troops (aka "Kieffer Commandos"), he participated in the Battle of Normandy and landed again in Holland on 1 November 1944.Montlaur's paintings were influenced by the great classical works such as those by Paolo Uccello, Ingres, Delacroix and later Kandinsky. One can define four styles characterising the evolution of Montlaur's work: cubism immediately post-war, geometric abstraction from 1949, abstract expressionism from 1955 and finally lyrical abstraction around 1960, once he had achieved the summit of his art and technique. His work was often mystical, sometimes religious, and was marked by the terrible memories of his wartime experiences.
    • Birthplace: Biarritz, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Expressionism
    • Nationality: France
    49 votes
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  • Henri Laurens
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    Henri Laurens

    Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator.
    • Artworks: Head of a Woman, Undines, Tête de femme (Head of a Woman), The Bunch of Grapes
    • Birthplace: Paris, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: France
    67 votes
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  • Alice Bailly
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    Alice Bailly

    Alice Bailly (25 February 1872 – 1 January 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement. In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris where she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin, avant-garde modernist painters who influenced her works and her later life.
    • Artworks: Self-Portrait
    • Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Dada, Cubism
    • Nationality: Switzerland
    • Art Forms: Painting
    70 votes
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  • Henri Le Fauconnier
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    Henri Le Fauconnier

    Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin. Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings. He was in contacts with many European avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, writing a theoretical text for the catalogue of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich, of which he became a member. His paintings were exhibited in Moscow reproduced as examples of the latest art in Der Blaue Reiter Almanach (The Blue Rider Almanac).
    • Birthplace: Hesdin, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Section d'Or
    70 votes
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    George Terzian

    48 votes
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  • Henry Villierme
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    Henry Villierme

    Henry Pierre Villierme (August 21, 1928 – March 13, 2013) was an American painter associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme was considered one of the "Second Generation" members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme first rose to prominence with a series of successful exhibitions in the late 1950s. From the 1960s to the 1980s Villierme continued to paint and sculpt in his studio, and in the late 1980s returned to public exhibitions.
    • Associated periods or movements: Bay Area Figurative Movement, Abstract expressionism, Cubism, Pointillism
    • Nationality: United States of America
    • Art Forms: Painting
    36 votes
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  • Peter Blume
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    Peter Blume

    Peter Blume (27 October 1906 - 30 November 1992) was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
    • Artworks: Hyacinth, The Eternal City, The Rock, Buoy
    • Birthplace: Smarhon’, Belarus
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Folk art, Surrealism
    • Nationality: United States of America
    • Art Forms: Painting
    75 votes
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  • Ang Kiukok
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    Ang Kiukok

    Ang Kiukok (March 1, 1931 – May 9, 2005) was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent and was a National Artist for Visual Arts.
    • Artworks: The Last Supper, Mother and Son, Fighting Figures, Fishermen with Catch, Crucifixion
    • Birthplace: Davao, Philippines
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism
    • Art Forms: Painting
    57 votes
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    Mikhail Larionov

    Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Ларио́нов; June 3, 1881 – May 10, 1964) was an avant-garde Russian painter. Larionov was also the lifelong partner of fellow Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova. He was a founding member of the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Goncharova he invented Rayonism (1912–1914). He was also a member of the German-based art movement known as Der Blaue Reiter. Born in Russia, he and Goncharova moved to Paris and lived there until his death.
    • Artworks: Acacias in Spring, Portrait of Aleksei Kruchenykh, Self-Portrait, Red Rayonism
    • Birthplace: Tiraspol, Moldova
    • Associated periods or movements: Rayonism, Cubism
    • Nationality: Russia
    • Art Forms: Painting
    39 votes
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  • Tomislav Krizman
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    Tomislav Krizman

    Tomislav Krizman (1882–1955), was a Croatian painter, graphic artist, costume and set designer, teacher, author and organizer of cultural events. He painted in oils and tempera, although he is principally remembered for his remarkable graphic art. He was of the founders of the Medulić Society, and the Zagreb Spring Salon of 1916. He exhibited in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Vienna, Paris and Rome.
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Expressionism
    • Art Forms: Painting
    40 votes
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  • Aung Khin
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    Aung Khin

    Aung Khin (Burmese: အောင်ခင် [ʔàʊɴ kʰɪ̀ɴ], 13 February 1921 – 14 May 1996) was a Burmese painter who became prominent in the Mandalay art world. He is well known as one of the foremost and earliest of modernistic painters in Burma.
    • Birthplace: Myanmar
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Impressionism, Expressionism
    • Art Forms: Painting
    59 votes
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  • Alberto Giacometti
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    Alberto Giacometti

    Alberto Giacometti (UK: , US: , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition, as well as existential and phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. Around 1935 he gave up on his Surrealistic influences in order to pursue a more deepened analysis of figurative compositions. Giacometti wrote texts for periodicals and exhibition catalogues and recorded his thoughts and memories in notebooks and diaries. His self-critical nature led to great doubts about his work and his ability to do justice to his own artistic ideas but acted as a great motivating force.Between 1938 and 1944 Giacometti's sculptures had a maximum height of seven centimeters (2.75 inches). Their small size reflected the actual distance between the artist's position and his model. In this context he self-critically stated: "But wanting to create from memory what I had seen, to my terror the sculptures became smaller and smaller". After the war, Giacometti created his most famous sculptures: his extremely tall and slender figurines. These sculptures were subject to his individual viewing experience—between an imaginary yet real, a tangible yet inaccessible space.In Giacometti's whole body of work, his painting constitutes only a small part. After 1957, however, his figurative paintings were equally as present as his sculptures. His almost monochromatic paintings of his late work do not refer to any other artistic styles of modernity.
    • Artworks: The Couple, Tall Figure, III, Head of a Man on a Rod, Monumental Head
    • Birthplace: Borgonovo, Switzerland
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism
    • Nationality: Switzerland
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
    57 votes
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  • Ion Theodorescu-Sion
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    Ion Theodorescu-Sion

    Ion Theodorescu-Sion was a Romanian painter and draftsman, known for his contributions to modern art and especially for his traditionalist, primitivist, handicraft-inspired and Christian painting. Trained in academic art, initially an Impressionist, he dabbled in various modern styles in the years before World War I. Theodorescu-Sion's palette was interchangeably post-Impressionist, Divisionist, Realist, Symbolist, Synthetist, Fauve or Cubist, but his creation had one major ideological focus: depicting peasant life in its natural setting. In time, Sion contributed to the generational goal of creating a specifically Romanian modern art, located at the intersection of folk tradition, primitivist tendencies borrowed from the West, and 20th-century agrarian politics. Initially scandalized by Theodorescu-Sion's experiments, public opinion accepted his tamer style of the mid to late 1910s. Sion was commissioned as a war artist, after which his standing increased. His paintings alternated the monumental depictions of harsh rural environments, and their inhabitants, with luminous Balcic seascapes and nostalgic records of suburban life.
    • Birthplace: Ianca, Sud-Est, Romania
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Divisionism, Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism, Academic art
    • Nationality: Romania
    • Art Forms: Mural
    28 votes
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  • Raoul Dufy
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    Raoul Dufy

    Raoul Dufy (French: [ʁa.ul dy.fi]; 3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.
    • Artworks: Open Window, Nice, Sailing Boat at Sainte-Adresse
    • Birthplace: Le Havre, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Fauvism, Modernism, Cubism, Impressionism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    43 votes
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  • David Bomberg
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    David Bomberg

    David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and which included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, C.R.W. Nevinson and Dora Carrington. Bomberg painted a series of complex geometric compositions combining the influences of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding World War I; typically using a limited number of striking colours, turning humans into simple, angular shapes, and sometimes overlaying the whole painting a strong grid-work colouring scheme. He was expelled from the Slade School of Art in 1913, with agreement between the senior teachers Tonks, Frederick Brown and Philip Wilson Steer, because of the audacity of his breach from the conventional approach of that time.Whether because his faith in the machine age had been shattered by his experiences as a private soldier in the trenches or because of the pervasive retrogressive attitude towards modernism in Britain Bomberg moved to a more figurative style in the 1920s and his work became increasingly dominated by portraits and landscapes drawn from nature. Gradually developing a more expressionist technique, he travelled widely through the Middle East and Europe. From 1945 to 1953, he worked as a teacher at Borough Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) in London, where his pupils included Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Philip Holmes, Cliff Holden, Edna Mann, Dorothy Mead, Gustav Metzger, Dennis Creffield, Cecil Bailey and Miles Richmond. David Bomberg House, one of the student halls of residences at London South Bank University, is named in his honour. He was married to landscape painter Lilian Holt.
    • Artworks: East Valley, Cuenca: Afternoon, In the Hold, Recto: Messiah. Verso: Messiah, Ju-Jitsu
    • Birthplace: Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Futurism
    • Nationality: United Kingdom
    • Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
    46 votes
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  • Boris Korolev
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    Boris Korolev

    Boris Danilovich Korolyov (Russian: Борис Данилович Королёв; 1884/85–1963) was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist, teacher and public figure.
    • Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Impressionism, Realism, Realism
    • Nationality: Soviet Union
    38 votes
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  • Marie Laurencin
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    Marie Laurencin

    Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
    • Artworks: Head of a Young Woman
    • Birthplace: Paris, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting
    49 votes
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  • Eduardo Úrculo
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    Eduardo Úrculo

    Eduardo Úrculo (21 September 1938 – 31 March 2003), was a Spanish pop artist who also worked in other art movements, including Expressionism and Neo-Cubism. Both painter and sculptor, he is notable for his portrayals of luggage, the gentleman's hat, and the female bottom. With El Equipo Crónica (“Chronicle Team”), formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and Rafael Solbes, Úrculo is considered one of the drivers of pop art in Spain.
    • Birthplace: Santurtzi, Spain
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Expressionism, Pop art
    • Nationality: Spain
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting
    48 votes
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  • Francis de Erdely
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    Francis de Erdely

    Francis de Erdely (Hungarian: Erdélyi Ferenc) (1904–1959) was a Hungarian-American artist who was renowned in Europe and the United States for his powerful figure paintings and drawings as well as for his teaching abilities.
    • Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
    • Associated periods or movements: Modernism, Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism
    • Art Forms: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
    37 votes
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  • Carlos Merida
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    Carlos Merida

    Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works, 4000m2 on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city.
    • Artworks: Centro Urbano Benito Juárez, Dances of Mexico, Study in Curves, Musicians, Fecundidad
    • Birthplace: Guatemala City, Guatemala
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: Guatemala
    • Art Forms: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
    40 votes
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  • 52

    Tobeen

    Tobeen (Bordeaux, July 20, 1880 - Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, March 1938) is the pseudonym of the French artist Félix Bonnet.
    • Birthplace: Bordeaux, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: France
    • Art Forms: Painting
    31 votes
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  • Ilya Bolotowsky
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    Ilya Bolotowsky

    Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981) was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
    • Artworks: Vertical Yellow Plane, Grey Diamond
    • Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
    • Associated periods or movements: Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Neoclassicism, Cubism, Abstract art
    • Nationality: United States of America
    • Art Forms: Mural, Painting
    29 votes
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  • Juan Mirabal
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    Juan Mirabal

    Juan Mirabal, also known as "Tapaiu" or Red Dancer, was an artist from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.
    • Birthplace: Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
    • Associated periods or movements: Modern art, Cubism
    • Art Forms: Mural
    25 votes
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  • Andrew Dasburg
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    Andrew Dasburg

    Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".
    • Artworks: Improvisation, November in New Mexico
    • Birthplace: Paris, France
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, American modernism
    • Nationality: France, United States of America, Germany
    • Art Forms: Painting
    39 votes
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  • Eduard Ole
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    Eduard Ole

    Eduard Ole (20 May 1898 – 24 November 1995) was an Estonian painter. Some of his most representative works are on permanent exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum of Estonia.In 1973 Ole published in Sweden his two-volume illustrated memories Suurel maanteel (English: On the Big Highway) I and II. A new edition of these books were published in Estonia in 2010.
    • Birthplace: Valga, Estonia, Estonia
    • Associated periods or movements: Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism
    • Art Forms: Painting
    23 votes
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    Caziel

    Caziel (born Kazimierz Józef Zielenkiewicz; 16 June 1906 – 25 August 1988) was a Polish artist who lived and worked in Paris during the inter-war period and who worked alongside a number of important figures of the School of Paris, including Pablo Picasso and the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
    • Birthplace: Sosnowiec, Poland
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, School of Paris
    • Nationality: Poland, United Kingdom
    • Art Forms: Painting
    41 votes
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  • Manolito Tolentino Mayo
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    Manolito Tolentino Mayo

    Lito Mayo (December 17, 1954 – May 4, 1983) was a Filipino graphic artist, print-maker, avantegarde poet, social activist, sculptor, satirist, and art professor. His prolific career was brief; it lasted only a mere decade. He was one of the active young artists who experimented, collaborated, and exhibited art works in the thriving hubs of modernist and contemporary galleries and art associations in Ermita District of Manila. He was also credited by his peers and art writers as the "Original Punk" of Philippine Arts.
    • Birthplace: Lipa, Batangas, Philippines
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Nationality: Philippines
    27 votes
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  • Ali Divandari
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    Ali Divandari

    Ali Divandari (Persian: علی دیواندری‎; also Romanized as Alī Divāndarī, Persian pronunciation: [æliː diːvɒːndæriː]; Born 6 September, 1957 in Sabzevar) is an Iranian cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, sculptor and journalist.
    • Birthplace: Sabzevar, Iran
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism, Abstract art, Surrealism, Conceptual art
    • Art Forms: Painting
    37 votes
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  • Hannah Tompkins
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    Hannah Tompkins

    Hannah Tompkins (January 17, 1920 - October 25, 1995) was an American artist primarily known for her large body of artwork based on the writings of William Shakespeare. A catalog listing of her Shakespeare themed oil paintings appears in Shakespeare in American Painting : A Catalogue from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present by Richard Studing.She began painting in earnest in the mid-1960s while teaching art at Ramapo Community College, Rockland County, New York. In 1979 she opened the Shambles Gallery in Santa Cruz, California and in 1984 opened the Shakespeare Art Museum in Ashland, Oregon.
    • Birthplace: New York City, New York
    • Associated periods or movements: Cubism
    • Art Forms: Painting, Printmaking
    30 votes
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