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Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late...
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Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ]; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor whose works, which blend simplicity and sophistication, led the way for numerous modernist...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1876
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 1957 (age 81 years)
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter....
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1869
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1954 (age 84 years)
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1881
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 1955 (age 74 years)
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. She was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore.
Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1903
Date of death:
- May 20, 1975 (age 72 years)
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover,...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1936 (age 73 years)
Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935) was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
"Search the history of American art," wrote Ken Johnson in the New York...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1883
Date of death:
- Oct 23, 1935 (age 51 years)
James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860 – November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic...
Date of birth:
- 1860
Date of death:
- 1949 (age 89 years)
David Smith
David Roland Smith (March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
Born in Decatur, Indiana on March 9, 1906, Smith grew up in Paulding, Ohio, where...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1906
Date of death:
- May 23, 1965 (age 59 years)
John Tunnard
John Samuel Tunnard (7 May 1900 - 12 December 1971) was an English Surrealist and Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.
John Tunnard was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire, and educated at...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 12, 1971 (age 71 years)
Isaac Grünewald
Isaac Grünewald (September 2, 1889 - May 22, 1946) was a Swedish-Jewish expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946, in other words...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1889
Date of death:
- May 22, 1946 (age 56 years)
Lasar Segall
The artist Lasar Segall (July 21, 1891 – August 2, 1957) was a Lithuanian born Jew, who enventually became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. He was a painter, engraver and sculptor who first studied in Europe. Segall's work is derived from...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1891
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1957 (age 66 years)
Anita Malfatti
Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European (more) and American (less) forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exposition in Sao Paulo from 1917-1918 was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1889
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1964 (age 74 years)
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
His forms are usually...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1986 (age 88 years)
Ion Irimescu
Acad. Prof. Dr. Honoris Causa Ion Irimescu (February 27, 1903 – October 29, 2005) was one of Romania's greatest sculptors and sketchers as well as a Member of the Romanian Academy. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize of Excellence for Romanian Culture....
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1903
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 2005 (age 102 years)
Sigrid Hjertén
Sigrid Hjertén (October 27, 1885 – March 24, 1948), was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and she participated in a large number of exhibitions (106 to be...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1885
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1948 (age 62 years)
Harry Baron
Harry Baron born 21 January 1944 in Tel Aviv is an Israeli sculptor and art professor. He was educated at the Berlin Academy of Art in Berlin, Germany and serves as the head of the Sculptor's Department at the Avni Academy of Art in Tel Aviv as well...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1944 (age 66 years)
Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876, Woodstown, New Jersey – May 1, 1953, New York City) was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, also known as 'the Eight.' He was the youngest member of the group of modernist painters who...
Date of birth:
- Nov 6, 1876
Date of death:
- May 1, 1953 (age 76 years)
Edwin Scheier
Edwin Scheier (November 11, 1910 – April 20, 2008), was an American artist, best known for his ceramic works with his wife, Mary Scheier.
Edwin Scheier was born in The Bronx, New York, to a Jewish German immigrant father, and an American mother....
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 2008 (age 97 years)
Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is an artist.)
Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting.
The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born...
Date of birth:
- 1960 (age 50 years)
Artur Barrio
Artur Barrio (Artur Alipio Barrio de Sousa Lopes) is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his...
Date of birth:
- 1945 (age 65 years)
Robert H. Hudson
Robert Hudson (born 1938) is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Hudson is best known for his funk...
Date of birth:
- 1938 (age 72 years)
Edward Biberman
Edward Biberman (23 October 1904 – 27 January 1986) was an American artist active in the mid-twentieth century. His work ranged from stylised portraits to history-inspired murals, and drew on the emerging urban landscapes of southern California, and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1904
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1986 (age 81 years)
Jan Matulka
Jan Matulka (7 November 1890 - 25 June 1972) was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.
Matulka was born on November 7, 1890 in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1890
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1972 (age 81 years)
Paul Păun
Paul Păun or Paúl Yvenez (born Paul Zaharia on 5 September 1915, Bucharest and died on 9 April 1994, Haifa) was a Romanian Surrealist artist and writer, being a doctor at the same time. Inspired mostly by Geo Bogza's style, he debuted in 1930 in the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1915 (age 94 years)
