Salvador Dalí was born in Catalonia in 1904, and over the course of the next 84 years, he firmly established himself as one of the leading artists of the 20th century. Known for his Surrealist […]

Salvador Dalí is probably the most famous artist of the Surrealist movement, and although his association with the group was short-lived, its ideas and themes continued to influence the Spanish artist’s work for the rest […]

Patrick Caulfield was born in January 1936, and during the course of his career, he carved out a reputation for himself as a unique and innovative artist. This reputation has remained firm since his death […]

British artist Patrick Caulfield never reached the stellar fame of some of his contemporaries such as David Hockney, but he did make important and undeniable contributions to 20th century art with his visually striking prints […]

Louise Bourgeois once described herself as “a woman without secrets,” and she obsessively mined her personal life and her own psyche to find inspiration for her remarkable artworks. She relentlessly experimented with different media, and […]

The French/American artist Louise Bourgeois lived until she was almost 100 years old, worked in a wide range of different media, and enjoyed producing controversial, provocative, and attention-grabbing pieces which ceaselessly explored themes such as […]

Alex Katz is known for his huge canvases and bright, bold planes of colour that staunchly refuse to be defined by genre; though his paintings often have the scale of Abstract Expressionism, they are infused […]

American artist Alex Katz is best known for his large, stylish, tightly-cropped portraits and landscapes. His signature clean lines, flattened forms, and bold sweeps of colour inhabit a space between Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism […]

The graffiti artist Banksy emerged from the Bristol underground scene in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, and his wryly humorous, politically-driven street art has continued to grow in popularity ever since then. Even though […]

According to his website, French street artist Invader “lives and works on Earth”, and he graduated from the Sorbonne. Aside from that, he chooses to remain anonymous, though some sources have identified him as Franck […]

Invader is the pseudonym of the enigmatic French street artist whose real name is believed by some sources to be Franck Slama. Since his initial creations began to appear in Paris in the 1990s, Invader’s […]

Peter Doig is an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s. Since then, his atmospheric, unusual, and hauntingly beautiful paintings and prints have captured the attention of the world, and he has successfully established […]

Peter Doig is of the same generation as many of the notorious Young British Artists (YBAs), but unlike them, he didn’t eschew traditional artistic mediums or practices, and he didn’t gain attention for using shock […]