Artists in the History

In the following years, Manaras production continued in this direction, combining sequels, original work and collaborations with renowned creators. Monkey was serialized in the early 1980s on Heavy Metal and Manara became famous for collaborating with Neil Gaiman and other artists. In 2003, Manara appeared on the cover of the second studio album of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyros, The…

According to Banksy’s 2010 film Exit the Gift Shop, Thierry Guetta is a French-born street artist from Los Angeles who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, a street artist. Invader who rented street performers until 2000 and became an artist in his own right a few weeks after Banksy’s advice. However, Banksy insists on their official website…

The following year, Cézanne moved to the capital to study at the Academie Suisse, where he met the artist Camille Pissarro who influenced Cézanne’s practice, style and methods. When Paul Cezanne moved from Aix-en-Provence to Paris in 1862 his art was heavily influenced by Eugene Delacroix and Gustave Courbet. Paul Cezanne may now be considered one of the most famous…

Although less refined than Van Dyck as a portrait painter he shows this outstanding master of the path. His subjects of pure fantasy, such as the Garden of Love (Madrid and Dresden) and the Village Festival (Louvre), have never been equal to him. He was all the more rare, both a popular painter and a painter-painter, as close to Constable,…

The princes’ photographs show that it is not the origin of the images (artist or advertising agency) that matters, but their destination… the place belonging to the viewer… where the images find their meaning…. In the mid-1970s Prince made pictorial drawings and collages which he has since abandoned. Studying images from media, advertising and entertainment of the late 1970s, he…

Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA ) is an American sculptor best known for his massive abstract steel sculptures, in which the essential presence challenges the physical qualities of the pieces and their specific locations. However, his sculptures still evoke a sense of sublime due to their immensity and materiality. One of the most…

The network of cubes allowed Levitt to explore the juxtaposition of different sizes and shapes arranged according to certain pre-established rules and ideas. Written instructions for each of these abstract works were given and sometimes a small sketch was drawn by his assistants and others. The design consisted of four equal square segments with lines in four directions (Lines in…

Lempicka won the first prize in 1927 at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts for the painting “Quizette on the Balcony” – a striking portrait of her daughter she rarely saw – a portrait of his mistress with Diosheg. After World War II, she and her husband moved to the United States and painted celebrity portraits, still lifes, and some…

On December 24, 1934, Benton was considered one of the three leading American regionalist artists, along with Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) and John Stuart Curry (American, 1897-1946) when his work (self portrait) appeared on the cover of Time magazine. In 1935, Benton left New York and settled permanently in Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught at the International Art Students…

Italian painter Titian first studied in Venice under the mosaic master Sebastiano Zuccato, but soon moved to the Bellini family workshop, where Giovanni Bellini, the greatest Venetian artist of the time, became his true master. The Italian artist Tiziano was born in the small village of Pieve di Cadore, located on the mountains of the Alps, north of Venice and…