"All of us have started from Cezanne" - Fernand Leger.
"When religion, science, and morality are shaken - when external supports threaten to collapse then man’s gaze turns away from the outside world towards himself" - Vasily Kandinsky.
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" - Picasso.
"I have not painted a woman - I have painted a painting!" - Matisse.
"Painting, after all, has never been a mirror of the external world, it has never been like a photograph. It has been a creation of signs which were always rightly read by contemporaries…" - Daniel Kahnweiler.
Jean Pierre Augier
"Our Ideas and our ideals must be clad in hair shirts - they must be fed on locusts and wild honey, not on history - if we are ever to escape the exhaustion of our European bad taste" - Franz Marc.
"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leads from the visible to the invisible…" - Max Beckmann.
"… theonly interesting truth is the subjective… We have to admit that reshaped nature is at least as expressive as 'natural nature'" - Rene Claair.
"Like ourselves, these artist [of Africa and Oceana] sought to express in their work only internal truths, renouncing in consequence all consideration of external form" - Kandinsky.
"In the highest sense, an ultimate mystery lies behind the ambiguity which the light of the intellect fails miserably to penetrate" - Paul Klee.
List of 20th-21th century Artists and artistic movements definition
20th-21th century Art
Alena Makarova-Levina, 1963 | Figurative painter - Nuovo!!
Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter
Alex Colville | Magic Realist painter
Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов, 1970 | Fantastic Realism painter
Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов, 1970 | Still Life
Alexei Antonov, 1957 | Surrealist / Still life painter
Alush Shima, 1942 | Colorist / Fauvist / Symbolist painter - Nuovo!!
Ana Mutavdzic | Abstract Cityscape painter
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Ballet dancers
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | The passion of music
Andrew Hem | Pop Surrealist painter
Andrey Remnev | Андрей Ремнев, 1962 | Magic Realism painter
Andrey Shishkin / Андрей Шишкин, 1960 | Portrait | Academic painter
Andrius Kovelinas, 1958 | Surrealist figurative painter
Angelo Vadalà, 1940 | Figurative painter / Sculptor
Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers
Ans Markus, 1947 | Fashion painter
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Ballet dancers
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Figurative painter
Armik Malekian, 1951 | Figurative painter
Aykut Aydogdu, 1986 | Surrealist digital painter
Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor
Bruce Wolfe, 1941 | Figurative painter and sculptor
Bruno Mondot, 1964 | Surrealist / Trompe l’oeil painter
Bryce Liston, 1965 | Children's Art
Bulent Kilic 1974 | Seascape / Cityscape painter
Candace Charlton, 1968 | Abstract Figurative painter
Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract / Portrait painter / Illustrator - Nuovo!!
Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract Portrait painter
Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract | Portrait painter
Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance paintings
Christopher Clark | Storyteller painter
Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Figurative Palette knife painter
Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Pop Vintage style painter
Daniel Densborn, 1946 | Flamenco dancers
Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Surrealist Illustrator
David Adickes, 1927 | Figurative sculptor /painter
David Gray | The Storyteller | VideoArt
Denis Nolet, 1964 | Night Tango in Paris
Denis Nolet, 1964 | Romantic painter
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Ed Sandoval | Romantic Impressionist /Expressionist painter
Edward J. (Ted) Reed | Classical Realism painter
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers
Emilio Giunchi - Zenone, 1936 | Naif painter
Eric Barjot | Vintage style painter
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part.2
Fabian Perez, 1967 | Embrace series
Fabien Clesse, 1962 | Abstract Portrait painter
François Bard, 1959 | Figurative painter
Fred Wessel, 1946 | Egg Tempera painter
George Bodine | Figurative / Cityscape painter
George Grie / Джордж Грие, 1962 | Neo-Surrealist painter
Gerda Wegener | The Danish pioneer of Art Dèco | Wegener’s wife In 'The Danish Girl'
Giampaolo Bianchi, 1947 | Mixed media painter
Gigino Falconi, 1933 | Surrealist painter
Giuliano Boscaini, 1958 | Watercolour painter
Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art
Hanan Milner, 1949 | Figurative painter
Hernan Javier Muñoz, 1983 | Surrealist painter
Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter
Hua Chen, 1952 | Impressionist Figurative painter
Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎, 1954 | Bijin-ga Art / Japanese beauty
Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎, 1954 | Japanese beauty in Art Déco style
Ilya Ibryaev / Илья Ибряев, 1955 | Watercolour painter
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Isabel Miramontes, 1962 | Abstract surrealist sculptor - Nuovo!!
Ivan Pili, 1976 | Hyperrealist / Genre painter
Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te
Jean Abrie, 1962 | Figurative / Wildlife painter | Figures
Jesus Navarro, 1952 | Hyperrealist painter
Jimmy Law, 1970 | Abstract portrait painter
Jorge Luis Borges | A Poem to Friends | L'Amicizia
Jorge Marin, 1963 | Figurative sculptor
Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist / Figurative painter
Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist /Genre painter
Julee Simmons | Figurative painter
Jérôme Birti, 1988 | Abstract Portrait painter
Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦, 1947 | Stone / clay sculpture
Keith Mallett, 1948 | Jazz painting
Kevin Beilfuss, 1963 | Figurative / Portrait painter
Konstantin Razumov /Константин Разумов, 1974 | Children's Art
La Mano del Desierto / The Hand of the Desert, 1992
Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative Impressionist painter
Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Love
Lee Kang-Bin, 1991 | Coffee art
Lindsey Kustusch | Cityscape painter
Liu Yi, 1958 | Ballet dancers
Lori Earley | Pop surrealism painter
Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter
Marco Rossati, 1943 | Metaphysical Realism painter
Marie Laure Vareilles, 1966 | Surrealist photographer
Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская, 1963 | Abstract Figurative painter
Martin Pate | Ballet Dancers
Mary Alayne Thomas | Surrealist Fantasy painter
Max Leiva, 1966 | Abstract Figurative sculptor
Michael Van Zeyl, 1969 | Portrait / Magic Realism painter
Michel Delacroix, 1933 | Paris painting in Naïf Style
Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter
Michelle Torrez | Expressionist painter
Miguel Avataneo, 1962 | Figurative painter
Miomir Badzic | Ballet dancers
Miroslaw Scheib, 1963 | Romantic Cityscape painter - Nuovo!!
Misawa Hiroshi 三澤 寛志, 1961 | Figurative painter
Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers
Nguyen Tuan, 1963 | Figurative sculptor
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Renaissance style painter - Nuovo!!
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Symbolist / Renaissance style painter - Nuovo!!
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Venice painting - Nuovo!!
Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон, 1972 | Figurative / Still life painter
Ousmane Sow | The Auguste Rodin of Senegal
Pablo Neruda / Duy Huynh | Ode to the Happy Day / Ode al giorno felice
Paris painting
Paul Verlaine | Kiss! / Bacio! Rosa malva nel giardino delle carezze..
Peregrine Heathcote, 1973 | Academic Realism painter
Piero Bresciani, 1945 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter
Pino Daeni | Romantic book illustrator
Rabindranath Tagore | Stay in front of my eyes / Rimani davanti ai miei occhi
Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter
Rodrigo Zaniboni | Figurative / Plein air painter
Roland Palmaerts, 1953 | Watercolour Cityscape painter
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part 2
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Romantic Soul
Rudyard Kipling | Se.. / If..| Lettera al figlio, 1910
Salvador Fuster Vercher, 1966 | Portrait /Cityscape painter
Sarah Myers | Figurative sculptor
Sayda Afonina / Сайда Афонина, 1965 | Realistic Figurative painter
Serguei Zlenko / Сергей Зленко, 1960 | Ballet dancers - Nuovo!!
Serguei Zlenko / Сергей Зленко, 1960 | Realist / Surrealist painter - Nuovo!!
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Impressionist painter
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Plein Air painter
Stanislaw Zoladz, 1952 | Watercolour painter
Stefano Di Stasio, 1948 | The Anacronisti group painters
Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers
Stephen Shortridge, 1951 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Steven Quartly, 1971 | Impressionist palette knife painter
Tina Garrett, 1974 | Portrait /Figure painter
Tomek Setowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter ⁽²⁾
Toshio Ebine / 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter
Trish Biddle | Figurative | Retro Vintage style painter
Troy Brooks | Pop-surrealism painter
Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor
Valentin Gubarev / Валентин Губарев, 1948 | Naïf / Minimalist painter
Vally Nomidou / Βαλλυ Νομιδου, 1959 | Paper figurative sculptures
Vassilios Antonakos / Βασίλης Αντωνάκος, 1980 | Abstract painter /sculptor
Vittorio Tessaro, 1958 | Figurative sculptor
Vytautas Laisonas, 1965 | Magic Realism painter
Yana Movchan, 1971 | Magic Realism painter
Award winning Artist
Alex Colville | Magic Realist painter
Alush Shima, 1942 | Colorist / Fauvist / Symbolist painter - Nuovo!!
Andrius Kovelinas, 1958 | Surrealist figurative painter
Angelo Vadalà, 1940 | Figurative painter / Sculptor
Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Ballet dancers
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Figurative painter
Armik Malekian, 1951 | Figurative painter
Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor
Bruce Wolfe, 1941 | Figurative painter and sculptor
Bruno Mondot, 1964 | Surrealist / Trompe l’oeil painter
Bryce Liston, 1965 | Children's Art
Bulent Kilic 1974 | Seascape / Cityscape painter
Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance paintings
Christopher Clark | Storyteller painter
Daniel Densborn, 1946 | Flamenco dancers
Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Surrealist Illustrator
David Adickes, 1927 | Figurative sculptor /painter
David Gray | The Storyteller | VideoArt
Denis Nolet, 1964 | Night Tango in Paris
Denis Nolet, 1964 | Romantic painter
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Ed Sandoval | Romantic Impressionist /Expressionist painter
Edward J. (Ted) Reed | Classical Realism painter
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part.2
Fabian Perez, 1967 | Embrace series
George Bodine | Figurative / Cityscape painter
Gerda Wegener | The Danish pioneer of Art Dèco | Wegener’s wife In 'The Danish Girl'
Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art
Hernan Javier Muñoz, 1983 | Surrealist painter
Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter
Hua Chen, 1952 | Impressionist Figurative painter
Ilya Ibryaev / Илья Ибряев, 1955 | Watercolour painter
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Ivan Pili, 1976 | Hyperrealist / Genre painter
Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te
Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist / Figurative painter
La Mano del Desierto / The Hand of the Desert, 1992
Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative Impressionist painter
Liu Yi, 1958 | Ballet dancers
Marco Rossati, 1943 | Metaphysical Realism painter
Martin Pate | Ballet Dancers
Michael Van Zeyl, 1969 | Portrait / Magic Realism painter
Michel Delacroix, 1933 | Paris painting in Naïf Style
Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter
Misawa Hiroshi 三澤 寛志, 1961 | Figurative painter
Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers
Nguyen Tuan, 1963 | Figurative sculptor
Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон, 1972 | Figurative / Still life painter
Ousmane Sow | The Auguste Rodin of Senegal
Peregrine Heathcote, 1973 | Academic Realism painter
Piero Bresciani, 1945 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter
Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter
Rodrigo Zaniboni | Figurative / Plein air painter
Roland Palmaerts, 1953 | Watercolour Cityscape painter
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part 2
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Romantic Soul
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Impressionist painter
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Plein Air painter
Stanislaw Zoladz, 1952 | Watercolour painter
Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers
Tina Garrett, 1974 | Portrait /Figure painter
Vytautas Laisonas, 1965 | Magic Realism painter
Yana Movchan, 1971 | Magic Realism painter
Impressionist art movement
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Ballet dancers
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | The passion of music
Bulent Kilic 1974 | Seascape / Cityscape painter
Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance paintings
Christopher Clark | Storyteller painter
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Ed Sandoval | Romantic Impressionist /Expressionist painter
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part.2
Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter
Hua Chen, 1952 | Impressionist Figurative painter
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te
Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist / Figurative painter
Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist /Genre painter
Julee Simmons | Figurative painter
Konstantin Razumov /Константин Разумов, 1974 | Children's Art
Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative Impressionist painter
Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter
Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон, 1972 | Figurative / Still life painter
Pino Daeni | Romantic book illustrator
Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter
Rodrigo Zaniboni | Figurative / Plein air painter
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part 2
Ron Hicks, 1965 | Romantic Soul
Salvador Fuster Vercher, 1966 | Portrait /Cityscape painter
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Impressionist painter
Slava Korolenkov / Вячеслав Короленков, 1958 | Figurative Plein Air painter
Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers
Stephen Shortridge, 1951 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Steven Quartly, 1971 | Impressionist palette knife painter
Sculptor
Angelo Vadalà, 1940 | Figurative painter / Sculptor
Ans Markus, 1947 | Fashion painter
Bruce Wolfe, 1941 | Figurative painter and sculptor
David Adickes, 1927 | Figurative sculptor /painter
Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art
Isabel Miramontes, 1962 | Abstract surrealist sculptor - Nuovo!!
Jorge Marin, 1963 | Figurative sculptor
Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦, 1947 | Stone / clay sculpture
La Mano del Desierto / The Hand of the Desert, 1992
Max Leiva, 1966 | Abstract Figurative sculptor
Nguyen Tuan, 1963 | Figurative sculptor
Ousmane Sow | The Auguste Rodin of Senegal
Sarah Myers | Figurative sculptor
Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor
Vally Nomidou / Βαλλυ Νομιδου, 1959 | Paper figurative sculptures
Vassilios Antonakos / Βασίλης Αντωνάκος, 1980 | Abstract painter /sculptor
Vittorio Tessaro, 1958 | Figurative sculptor
VideoArt e Musica
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Ballet dancers
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | The passion of music
Andrius Kovelinas, 1958 | Surrealist figurative painter
Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers
Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor
Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance paintings
David Gray | The Storyteller | VideoArt
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Ivan Pili, 1976 | Hyperrealist / Genre painter
Keith Mallett, 1948 | Jazz painting
Liu Yi, 1958 | Ballet dancers
Miomir Badzic | Ballet dancers
Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers
Rodrigo Zaniboni | Figurative / Plein air painter
Women Artists
Alena Makarova-Levina, 1963 | Figurative painter - Nuovo!!
Ana Mutavdzic | Abstract Cityscape painter
Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers
Ans Markus, 1947 | Fashion painter
Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor
Candace Charlton, 1968 | Abstract Figurative painter
Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Figurative Palette knife painter
Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Pop Vintage style painter
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers
Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Isabel Miramontes, 1962 | Abstract surrealist sculptor
Julee Simmons | Figurative painter
Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative Impressionist painter
Lindsey Kustusch | Cityscape painter
Lori Earley | Pop surrealism painter
Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter
Marie Laure Vareilles, 1966 | Surrealist photographer
Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская, 1963 | Abstract Figurative painter
Mary Alayne Thomas | Surrealist Fantasy painter
Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter
Michelle Torrez | Expressionist painter
Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон, 1972 | Figurative / Still life painter
Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter
Sarah Myers | Figurative sculptor
Sayda Afonina / Сайда Афонина, 1965 | Realistic Figurative painter
Tina Garrett, 1974 | Portrait /Figure painter
Trish Biddle | Figurative | Retro Vintage style painter
Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor
Vally Nomidou / Βαλλυ Νομιδου, 1959 | Paper figurative sculptures
Yana Movchan, 1971 | Magic Realism painter
Vakhtang Kakulia, 1974