contemporary painting
Marsden Hartley, real name Edmund Hartley, was an American artist and poet, one of the greatest representatives of classical modernism in the United States.
Jonathan Lasker is an American abstract painter whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant. His work has been covered in Artforum, Artscribe, Arts Magazine, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Tema Celeste, Village Voice, Bomb Magazine, and The Washington Post among others. He was the subject of the 2005 book Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things by Richard Milazzo which documented his process of developing abstract compositions from sketches to paintings.
Anthony Claesz the Younger was a Dutch painter who worked on floral still lifes during the Golden Age of Dutch painting.
Anthony Claesz's paintings are generally constructed with great attention to detail, and he was particularly adept at depicting the play of light and shadow on reflective surfaces.
During his lifetime, Anthony Claesz the Younger was highly respected and was a member of the St. Luke's Guild in Amsterdam. His work can be found in many museums and galleries around the world, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Bridget Louise Riley is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions 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.
Jun Hasegawa is a contemporary Japanese artist based in the UK.
Jun Hasegawa is a contemporary Japanese artist based in the UK.
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
Chi-Chien Wang (Chinese: 王己千; pinyin: Wáng Jǐqiān; Wade–Giles: Wang Chi-chien), better known as C. C. Wang, was a Chinese-born artist and art collector based in New York City.
