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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...
Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017
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Jannis Kounellis (23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. From wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannis_Kounellis ...
Stevenson, Harold, 1929-
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B. 1929, IDABEL, OKLAHOMA Harold Stevenson was born in 1929 in Idabel, Oklahoma. Over the past six decades, the male figure—often nude and always sumptuously rendered—has dominated the oeuvre of the self-taught painter. Stevenson moved to New York to pursue art in 1949 and almost immediately befriended Andy Warhol. Stevenson would later become the subject of Warhol’s first film entitled Harold and would also appear in the pop artist’s video Heat (1972). In 1959, Stevenson relocated to Europe, w...
Bogart, Bram, 1921-2012
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Bram Bogart (July 12, 1921 – May 2, 2012) was a Dutch born Belgian expressionist painter most closely associated with the COBRA group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Bogart...
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009
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Jeanne-Claude, (Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon), French environmental artist (born June 13, 1935, Casablanca, Mor.—died Nov. 18, 2009, New York, N.Y.), was originally described as the publicist and business manager for her artist husband, Christo, but from 1994 she received equal billing with him in all creative and administrative aspects of their work, notably their controversial outdoor sculptures and huge temporary displays of fabrics and plastics. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jea...
Ruppersberg, Allen 1944-
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American conceptual artist, born 1944. Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, receiving his BFA in 1967. He lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles....
Christo, 1935-
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Christo (American/Bulgarian, b.1935) is a sculptor best known for his unique wrapped works, which span from small-scale wrapped books to entire buildings and sites in nature, encased in fabric. Christo, born Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, attended the art academy in Sofia as a youth, trained in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of the era. He moved to Prague, where he was first exposed to the work of early European modernists, and later to Paris, where he befriended a group of artists including Yv...
Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987
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Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/30/obituaries/jean-helion-abstract-and-representational-artist.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hélion...
Bertini, Gianni, 1922-2010
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Gianni Bertini is a contemporary Italian painter, born on August 31 , 1922 in Pisa. He engaged himself in an expression where stains were mostly used - these arts were later called "Nuclear Arts". https://www.archiviogiannibertini.org/en/bertini/biografia.html...
Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963
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Jacques Villon (also known as Gaston Duchamp) was born in Damville, Eure, in Normandy, France and was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker....
Hartung, Hans, 1904-1989
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Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in September 21, 1904.He was was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.In 1947 in Paris he had his first solo exhibition. By the late 1950s he had achieved recognition for his gestural paintings, which were nearly monochromatic and characterized by configurations of long rhythmical brushstrokes or scratches. In 1960 he was awarded the International Grand Prix f...
Whitman, Robert, 1935-
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Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones. Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958. He is represented by The Pace Gallery ...
Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
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An abstract painter considered influential in the development of Minimalism. Though a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, he rejected biomorphism and developed paintings based on geometry, specifically grids, often using a single color in gradations. His last works were a series of all-black canvases. From the Getty's Union List of Artist Names record...
Tuynman, Dora, 1926-1979
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Dutch painter and draftsman, born 1926, died 1979....
Villeglé, Jacques, 1926-
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Jacques Villeglé, born 27 March 1926, Quimper, Brittany, is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters.He is a member of the Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1970)....
Voss, Jan, 1936-
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Jan Voss was born in October 9, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany and was best known for collaged works on canvas which incorporate rudimentary, figure-like shapes and scrawling, painted lines. He tears, crumples, and glues paper to find the image for each work rather than having a plan in mind beforehand. Voss’s work has relationships to Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and CoBrA artists like Asger Jorn. Born on October 9, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany, the artist studied at the Munich Art Academy and moved to ...
Klapheck, Konrad, 1935-
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Konrad Klapheck (born February 10, 1935) is a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combines features of Surrealism and Pop art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Klapheck...
Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996
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William N. Copley (January 24, 1919 – May 7, 1996) also known as CPLY, was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur. His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art. From Wikipedia, accessed 16 July 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Copley_(artist)...
Magritte, René, 1898-1967
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Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters. From the description of René Magritte correspondence with Paul Colinet, circa 1934-1959. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 681408858 Belgian painter. From the description of René Magritte papers, 1919-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79260647 From the description of Letters to Guy Rosey, 1963-1966. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79598148 ...
Brô, René, 1930-1987
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René Brô was born in Charenton outside Paris on Novemeber 21, 1930. He was attracted to African art and to the art of ancient Egypt. Brô's works of this period - pottery, drawings and paintings – are close to the works of Paul Klee or to that which Jean Dubuffet characterized as art brut. In 1954 Brô had his first one-man exhibition in Paris. Ten years later, in 1964, he was invited to represent France at the Venice Biennial.Brô later withdrew to his country house in the Norman Courgeron where ...
Deschamps, Gérard, 1937-
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Gérard Deschamps was born in 1937 in Lyon, France and is a contemporary artist. A self-taught man, Gérard Deschamps began frequenting the galleries of rue de Seine in Paris early on. He exhibited as soon as 1955 and gave up oil painting to dedicate himself to collage, incorporating pictures of objects. In 1960, Deschamps met Hains et Villeglé, and officially joined the group of the New Realists in 1961, one year after its official creation. Gérard Deschamps then specialized in compostions inclu...
Fluxus (Group of artists)
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Fluxus is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by artist Willem de Ridder. Dutch gallerist and art critic Harry Ruhé describes Fluxus as "the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties". Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different artistic media and disciplines. Fluxus is also known for generating art forms that were new when Fluxus artists created them. These art for...
Merz, Mario, 1925-2003
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Mario Merz was born in Milan. He grew up in Turin and attended medical school for two years at the Università degli Studi di Torino. During World War II he joined the anti-Fascist group Giustizia e Libertà and was arrested in 1945 and confined to jail, where he drew incessantly on whatever material he could find. In 1950 he began to paint with oil on canvas. His first solo exhibition, held at Galleria La Bussola, Turin, in 1954, included paintings whose organic imagery Merz considered representa...
Pistoletto, Michelangelo, 1933-
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Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 23 June 1933 in Biella) is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Pistoletto...
Brüning, Peter, 1929-1970
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Peter Brüning was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1929. His studies of Expressionism and Cubism lead Brüning to find his own style within his varied early work. http://www.peter-bruening.com/...
Chaissac, Gaston, 1910-1964
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Gaston Chaissac (1910–1964) was a French painter. An autodidact and son of the French rural working class, he became involved in the art world when he lived next door to Otto Freundlich and Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss in Paris during the 1930s. They showed him modern art and supported his efforts to paint, helping him along and promoting his work. Gaston Chaissac is often considered to be part of the Art Brut or Outsider Art category. Some artists have described his style as "modern rustic." https://e...
Minujin, Marta, 1941-
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Marta Minujín was born in 1941 in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.As a pioneer of happenings, performance art, soft sculpture, and video, Marta Minujín pursues a varied and irreverent practice that demonstrates a profound distrust of the collectible art object. She often uses ephemeral materials such as cardboard, fabric, and food in work that is both monumental and fragile. https://www.guggenheim.org/map-artist/marta-minujin...
Hoeydonck, Paul van, 1925-
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Paul Van Hoeydonck, born in Antwerp in 1925, is a Belgian artist, best known for his aluminum sculpture Fallen Astronaut, which was placed on the Moon by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971, to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. Van Hoeydonck is also a painter. https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/paul-van-hoeydonck/...
Segal, George, 1924-2000
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George Segal was born in New York on November 26, 1924, to a Jewish couple who emigrated from Eastern Europe. His parents first settled in the Bronx where they ran a butcher shop and later moved to a New Jersey poultry farm. George spent many of his early years working on the poultry farm, helping his family through difficult times. For a while, George lived with his aunt in Brooklyn so that he could attend Stuyvesant Technical High School and prepare himself for a future in the math/science ...
Klein, Yves, 1928-1962
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French painter and experimental artist. From the description of Papers, 1957. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80343294 ...
Bury, Pol, 1922-2005
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Pol Bury was born in La Louvière, Belgium, on April 26, 1922. He began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco. https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/pol-bury...
Rotraut, 1938-
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Rotraut Uecker, known simply as Rotraut, is a German-French artist born in November 27, 1938 in Rerik, Germany. She is known for her unique drawings and sculptures made out of marble, iron, aluminum, bronze, wood or plastic. She was married to Yves Klein, a famous French artist. https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/rotraut/...
Kricke, Norbert, 1922-1984
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Norbert Kricke (30 November 1922 – 28 June 1984) was a German sculptor. Born in Düsseldorf, Kricke was a student of Richard Scheibe and Hans Uhlmann at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. He started creating abstract sculptures from 1947, using wires and other materials associated with industry, such as steel, glass and concrete. He was one of the most important artists in the group known as L'Art Informel, and had close links with ZERO and Nouveau Réalisme. https://en.wikipedia.o...
Friedlaender, Johnny, 1912-1992
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Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender was born in Pless (Pszczyna), Prussian Silesia in 1912. His works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery. His preferred medium of aquatint etching is a technically difficult artistic process, of which Friedlaender has been a pioneer....
Bleckner, Ross, 1949-
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Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic, along with several other artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bleckner...
Dufrene, Francois Rene, 1930-1982
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Francois Dufrene was born on September 21, 1930 in Paris and was a French Nouveau realist visual artist, Lettrist and Ultra-Lettrist poet. He is primarily known as a pioneer in sound poetry and for his use of décollage within Nouveau réalisme.Dufrene explored vocal possibilities of concrete music, a form of expression based on spontaneity directly recorded to tape, exploiting the noise music of sound, meaning and nonsense.He is considered one of the important artists in that Neo-Dada art movemen...
Arman, 1928-2005
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Arman (1928-2005) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez. Changed name to Armand Pierre Arman and known as Arman. From the description of Oral history interview with Arman, 1968 May 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595110 ...
Castro, Lourdes, 1930-
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Portuguese-born "new realist" and conceptual artist who was associated with Fluxus in the early 1960s. She lived in Portugal and Paris and exhibited her work throughout Europe. From the description of Papers, 1966-1987. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83287212 ...
