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Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter whose raw, emotionally charged imagery — most famously The Scream — helped launch Expressionism and remains a touchstone for art about psychological extremity.
Paul Klee
Swiss-German Bauhaus master who merged childlike pictorial invention with sophisticated color theory, creating a unique visual language between abstraction and figuration.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The last great Venetian painter, whose luminous ceiling frescoes and oil sketches represent the pinnacle of 18th-century Baroque decorative art.
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Pablo Picasso
MoMA
Pioneer of Cubism and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Picasso's restless experimentation redefined modern art.
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell Foundation
A leading second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose large-scale canvases translated landscape memory into visceral color fields.
Mark Rothko
Tate
Master of luminous color-field painting whose soft-edged rectangles aim to evoke fundamental human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum
Pop Art icon who collapsed the boundary between commercial and fine art, using silkscreen repetition to interrogate mass culture and celebrity.
Vasily Kandinsky
Guggenheim
Theorist and painter who pioneered pure abstraction, arguing that color and form could communicate spiritual states independently of representation.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
American modernist who magnified flowers, bones, and desert landscapes into near-abstract meditations on form and perception.
Edvard Munch
Study Pack
Norwegian painter whose raw, emotionally charged imagery — most famously The Scream — helped launch Expressionism and remains a touchstone for art about psychological extremity.
Paul Klee
Study Pack
Swiss-German Bauhaus master who merged childlike pictorial invention with sophisticated color theory, creating a unique visual language between abstraction and figuration.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Study Pack
The last great Venetian painter, whose luminous ceiling frescoes and oil sketches represent the pinnacle of 18th-century Baroque decorative art.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Study Pack
American modernist whose magnified flowers, bleached bones, and desert landscapes created a distinctly American visual language bridging representation and abstraction.
Edward Hopper
Study Pack
American realist whose scenes of urban isolation and stark light capture the psychological landscape of modern American life with cinematic precision.
Marc Chagall
Study Pack
Russian-French artist whose dreamlike, narrative imagery drew on Jewish folklore, love, and memory to create a poetic visual world that defies easy categorization.
Joan Miró
Study Pack
Catalan artist whose biomorphic abstractions, vivid color, and playful visual language bridged Surrealism and abstraction with a distinctly Mediterranean joy.