- Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (– December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. As a young man he enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. - Henry Moore
Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in the Yorkshire town of Castleford, Moore became well known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures. Substantially supported by the British art establishment, Moore helped to introduce a particular form of modernism into the United Kingdom. - Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia, and studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Art Students League in New York. - Brice Marden
Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938), American, generally described as a Minimalist artist, although his work defies specific categorization. He was born in Bronxville, New York and grew up in nearby Briarcliff Manor. He attended Florida Southern College, Lakeland (1957 to 1958) and received his BFA at Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts (1961). He earned his MFA at Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1963) where he studied with Esteban Vicente, … - Alfred Gockel
Alfred Alexander Gockel was born in Ludinghausen, Germany in 1952. From his earliest days on, he was fascinated by the magic of colors on paper. This talent and enthusiasm resulted in the release of the first art work by a German publisher at the age of 8. After he graduated from high school, he commenced his studies at the Polytechnic Academy in Munster in 1973. His main emphasis was typography, graphic design and advertising. - Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with the abstract art movement in the United States. In particular, he promoted the Abstract Expressionist movement and had close ties with the painter Jackson Pollock. - Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking, but after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art. The main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public space. - Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. While he was a child, Delaunay's parents divorced, and he was raised by his uncle, in La Ronchère (near Bourges). He took up painting at an early age, and by 1903, … - Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero is a neo-figurative Colombian artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists." He won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958, He paints and draws in a style somewhat similar to Pablo Picasso whilst he lived in Dinard, Brittany, 1922, for example "Deux femmes courant sur la plage" (The Course). He strives in all his work to capture an essential part of himself and his subjects through color and form. - Leroy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman is an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, semi-abstract paintings and screen prints of athletes and sporting events. - Marla Olmstead
Marla Olmstead (born 2000 in Binghamton, New York) is an artist, considered by some to be a child prodigy of abstract art. Olmstead began painting before her second birthday and by 2004 had attracted international media attention. Her abstract pieces have been as large as five feet (1.52m) square, hailed by critics as impressively complex, and have sold for tens of thousands of US dollars. Rarely has anyone but her parents witnessed her art during its creation. - Lena Karpinsky
Lena (Elena) Karpinsky is an artist. Lena Karpinsky was born in Moscow, Russia. She is the granddaughter of professor Ilya Klyachko (Piano faculty, Moscow Conservatory). Lena Karpinsky lived from 1991 to 2000 in Israel. Since 2000, she has lived and worked in a Toronto, Ontario, Canada suburb. Lena's favorite subjects are music and flowers. Most of her compositions are abstract; some could be described as naïve art. - Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder Nicholson OM, (10 April 1894 - 6 February 1982), known as Ben Nicholson, was an English abstract painter. Born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, Nicholson was the son of the painter Sir William Nicholson and the brother of Nancy Nicholson. The family moved to London in 1896 and Nicholson was educated as a boarder at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He travelled to New York in 1917 for an operation on his tonsils, … - Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, (born 8 March 1924 in New Malden, Surrey) is an English, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects. Caro was educated at Charterhouse public school and Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a degree in engineering. In 1946, after time in the British Navy, he started at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) to study sculpture for a year. - Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (born August 6, 1932) is a British painter and printmaker. Howard Hodgkin was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset. He then studied at the Camberwell Art School and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, where Edward Piper studied drawing under him. His first solo show was in London in 1962. His early paintings tend to be made up of hard-edged curved forms in a limited number of colours. - Terry Frost
Sir Terry Frost (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During his army service in World War II, he met and was taught by Adrian Heath while a prisoner of war. Subsequently, he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St Ives School of Art. In 1951, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. - Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American Abstract Expressionism Painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the others. Friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions. - Arthur Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. He was one of America's first abstract painters. Dove was born to a wealthy family in Canandaigua, New York. As a child he was befriended by a neighbor named Newton Weatherby. Weatherby was a naturalist who helped form Dove’s appreciation of nature. He was also an amateur painter who gave Dove pieces of leftover canvas to work with. At college he was chosen to illustrate the Cornell University yearbook. - Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 - 8 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion. - Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 - November 1943) was a French painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. In his famous proposal for the definition of painting, he stated: :"Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote or whatnot, … - Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery. A veteran of more than sixty solo exhibitions and nearly two hundred group exhibitions, … - Al Held
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Held showed no interest in art until he left the Navy in 1947. Inspired by friend Nicholas Krushenick, Held enrolled in the Art Students League of New York, then, in 1949, using the support of the G.I. Bill, he went to Paris for three years, to learn at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He returned to New York in 1953, and struggled with his work for several years. - Enoch Light
Enoch Light (August 18, 1905 - July 31, 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. He is credited with being the first musician to go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of the technical capabilities of home audio equipment of the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "ping-pong"). - Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood (b. 1962 in Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish abstract landscape painter. Educated at George Watson's College and James Gillespie's High School, he received a Bachelor of Arts at Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in drawing and painting. He now lives and works in the coastal town of Dunbar, East Lothian. He is an active proponent of the FareShare program for donations to the homeless. - Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Stanton MacDonald-Wright, was a U.S. abstract painter. One of his significant achievements was co-founding the Synchromist movement in 1913. MacDonald-Wright was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and moved to Santa Monica, California at age ten. He soon moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, Académie Julian, École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi. While there he and Morgan Russell developed synchromism, … - Mel Ramos
Though primarily a figurative painter, Mel Ramos (Born July 24, 1935) has experimented freely with realist and abstract art forms for the past twenty years. A few of his works embody both formats. This combination works to enhance the detail and feature of each format while detracting from the duality of the image making it wholly singular. - Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar (born 1924, in Shimla, India) is a contemporary Indian artist. Educated as an economist with an M.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Ram Kumar took classes at the Sharda Vakil School of Art, and then went to Paris and studied further there under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger. He was befriended by S.H. Raza, a major artist. Ram Kumar paints abstract landscapes, usually in oil or acrylic. He is also an author, writing fiction in Hindi. - Julio González
Julio González was a Spanish abstract, cubist painter and sculptor. Born in Barcelona, as a young man he worked with his older brother, Joan, in his father’s metal smith workshop. Both brothers took evening classes in art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes. In the late 1890s Julio began to visit "Els Quatre Gats", a Barcelona café, where he first met Pablo Picasso. He left Spain in 1900 and moved to Paris, never to return to his homeland. - Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British sculptor. Born in Bangor in Wales, Deacon was educated at Plymouth College and then studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, St Martin's School of Art in London and the Royal College of Art, also in London. He left the Royal College in 1977, and went on to study part time at the Chelsea School of Art. Deacon's first one man show came in 1978 in Brixton. - Morgan Russell
Morgan Russell (1886 - May 29, 1953) was a U.S. abstract painter. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he co-founded the Synchromist movement in 1913. - Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997) was an accomplished Italian designer of both clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol, Ancient Roman and Greek art as well as modern abstract art; he is considered one of the most colorful and talented designers of the late 20th century. Gianni was the founder of famous fashion tag Versace. The first boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. - Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack (b. 1931 in New York) is an American photorealist painter and sculptor. After studying fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953, Flack became a New Realist and finally a photorealist, in reaction to the abstract art movement. She is known for her feminine color schemes (dominated by pastel colors). The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. A pioneer of Photorealism and a nationally recognized painter and sculptor, Ms. - Arnold Newman
Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer of a jewish decent, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images. - František Kupka
František Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and orphic cubism (orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art. - Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 - February 5, 1999) was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement. Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28. By 1962, his work was shown at upscale galleries and, by the year 2000, was part of major permanent collections throughout New York and the United States Born in New York City in 1929, Krushenick served in World War II, then studied art upon his return to home life. - Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae (born 1963) is a British artist and one of the "Young British Artists" (YBAs). She is a painter. She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and Goldsmiths College (1984-1987). She was one of the artists in the seminal "Freeze" exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought by Charles Saatchi and shown in the major 1997 "Sensation" exhibition, … - John Olsen
John Olsen (born 1928 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is a great Australian artist. Olsen's primary subject of work is landscape, even though he has been labeled as an abstract artist. However Olsen rejects the accusation, stating, "I have never painted an abstract painting in my life". Olsen attempts to display the living experience of landscape. He describes his work as an exploration of the "Totality of landscape". - Wilhelm Worringer
Wilhelm Worringer was a German art historian. He is known in connection with expressionism. Through his influence on T. E. Hulme his ideas had an effect on early British modernism, especially vorticism. His best-known work is "Abstraction and Empathy", which was his doctoral thesis. - Gillian Ayres
Gillian Ayres (born February 3, 1930) is an English painter. Ayres was born in Barnes in south-west London. She studied at the Camberwell School of Art where figurative art was promoted, which Ayres hated. She left in 1950 and began to paint abstracts, with her first solo exhibition coming in the mid-1950s. Ayres held a number of teaching posts through the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with painters such as Howard Hodgkin, Robyn Denny and Roger Hilton. - Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.
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