Herbert von Karajan
was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor, one of the most renowned 20th century conductors. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music."[ |
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Maurice Béjart
was a French choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger |
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Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925. She studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Became a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet as soon as ... |
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró ,his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conve |
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder,was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys and tapestry and designed carpets.
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Antoni Tapies
Antoni Tŕpies is a Spanish Catalan painter. He is considered a great master artist of the 20th. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War.
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Antoni Gaudí
was a Catalan architect who belonged to the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs |
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M. C. Escher
was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
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René Magritte
was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and amusing images |
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Saint Andrei Rublev
is considered to be the greatest early Russian painter of Icons, frescoes and miniatures for illuminated manuscripts. |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York City. He gained fame, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a highly successful Neo-expressionist artist in the international art scene of the 1980s. Many recognize Basquiat as a le |
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David Hockney
is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California. An important contributor to British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century |
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Roy Lichtenstein
was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible".
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Anthony Warhola
a central figure in the movement known as Pop Art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for h |
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Stanley Mouse
is an American artist best known for his psychedelic art designs for 1960s rock concert posters, as well as Grateful Dead album cover art. |
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Paul Gauguin
was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influ |
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Piet Mondrian
He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied and even trivialized, Mondriaan's paintings exhibit a complexity that belies their apparent simpl |
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Gustav Klimt
His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body |
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Edvard Munch
was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art.
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Alfons Mucha
even though drawing had been his first love since childhood. He worked at decorative painting jobs in Moravia, mostly painting theatrical scenery, then in 1879 moved to Vienna to work for a leading Viennese theatrical design company |
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