Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) - Netherlands (Amersfoort)
Neoplasticism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Modernism
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (/ˈmɔːndriˌɑːn, ˈmɒn-/ Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn] 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his a......
Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) - Spain (Barcelona)
Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Suprematism, Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Modernism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Realism
Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra] 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of P......
Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) - France (Argentan)
Cubism, Modernism, Purism, Tubism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Suprematism, Orphism, Constructivism
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe] February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunn......
Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) - United Kingdom (Castleford)
Modernism, Modernism
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second Wor......
Mario Sironi (1885 - 1961) - Italy (Sassari)
Futurism, Metaphysical Art, Cubism, Modernism, Neo-Classicism
Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculp......
Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) - United States (Philadelphia)
Modernism, Modernism
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. With the belief that his work could influence the sociopolitical......
John La Farge (1835 - 1910) - United States (New York City)
Modernism, Modernism
John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American painter, muralist, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. La Farge was born in New York City to wealthy French parents and was raised bilingually as a child, he and his brothers produced a handmade magazine in French entitled Le Chinois. :17 His interest in art began dur......