Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) - France (Paris)
Surrealism, Conceptual Art, Minimalism
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ( listen) 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and t......
Carl AndreCarl Andre United States (Quincy)
Minimalism, Minimalism
Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist and recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977 in Hartford, CT and Lament for the Children, 1976 in Long Island City, NY) to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the ......
Donald Judd (1928 - 1994) - United States (Excelsior Springs)
Minimalism, Minimalism
Donald Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an ......
Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) - United States (Lexington)
Abstract Expressionism, Neo Expressionism, Minimalism
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/ April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly's paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-......