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Acconci, Vito  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th century, male.

Born 24 January 1940, in New York.

Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.

Body Art, Conceptual Art.

Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....

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Adams, Lisa Kay  

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31 October 2011
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American, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 3 August 1955, in Bristol (Pennsylvania).

Painter, sculptor, video artist, installation artist.

Lisa Adams studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1976; Scripps College, Claremont, California, obtaining a BA in 1977; and Claremont Graduate University, receiving an MFA in ...

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Afamados de Sans, Gladys  

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31 October 2011
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Uruguayan, 20th century, female.

Born 1928, in Montevideo.

Painter, engraver.

Having taught herself to paint at a very early age, Afamados de Sans enrolled in the engraving course at the national college of fine arts in Montevideo. She participated regularly in the national salon, where she obtained first prize in ...

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Agofroy, Hélène  

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31 October 2011
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French, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 1953, in Troyes.

Sculptor, draughtsman, installation artist, video artist.

Hélène Agofroy lives and works in Paris. The origins of Hélène Agofroy's sculptures can be found in the paintings of the Quattrocento. She is interested in the positioning of objects in Italian frescoes and paintings. She studies their multiple perspectival effects, then incorporates them into her sculpture. From common elements, such as wood, plaster and resin, Agofroy builds light, open worked sculptures of complex geometric design. They invoke overturned hulls, light cradles, or, as in ...

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Alÿs, Francis  

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31 October 2011
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Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in Mexico.

Born 1959, in Antwerp.

Painter, draughtsman, video artist, photographer, installation artist.

Francis Alÿs is of Belgian origin but has lived in Mexico since 1986. He trained as an architect at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice....

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Amarger, Michel  

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31 October 2011
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French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born January 1957, in Montpellier.

Painter, draughtsman, photographer, film maker.

Amarger met the group Letters and Signs in 1981. Since then he has participated in the groups activities, especially, according to him, in the domains of film and theatre.

His sculptural works occupy the domain of letters and the hypergraphic, meaning that of new signs having no previous meaning. Most often his graphic compositions in mixed media contain photographic materials....

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Anderson, Akili Ron  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 19 February 1946, in Washington DC.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, photographer, video artist, glassmaker, decorative designer. Theatre design.

AfriCobra Group.

Akili Ron Anderson attended the Corcoran School of Art and Howard University in Washington DC where he lives and works. He is a member of AfriCobra (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) founded in ...

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André, Jean-Luc  

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31 October 2011
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French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1955, in Caen.

Painter, draughtsman, installation artist. Posters.

As well as being a painter and an installation and video artist, Jean-Luc André is also a theoretician and a member of the experimental music group Déficit des Années Antérieures (DDAA). He also teaches at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges. He has initiated a series of movements, among them the Front de Brouillage International in ...

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Antonioni, Michelangelo  

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31 October 2011
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Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 1912, in Ferrara.

Film maker, painter, writer. Landscapes.

An intuitive painter, Michelangelo Antonioni uses watercolour, oil and sometimes unexpected materials. He then makes photographic enlargements of his paintings and exhibits the enlargements. On several occasions he has taken his painter's brush to his films, colouring in natural settings artificially, notably in ...

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Arfaras, Michalis  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in Germany.

Born 1954, in Athens.

Draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, video artist. Multimedia.

Michalis Arfaras first studied painting at the school of fine arts in Athens between 1972 and 1974. He continued his studies at the college of fine arts in Brunswick in Germany where he specialised in engraving and produced book illustrations and comic strips. He now lives and works in Hildesheim where he teaches graphic art at the university....

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Armas, Jésus González de  

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31 October 2011
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Cuban, 20th century, male.

Active in France since 1992.

Born 8 September 1934, in Havana.

Painter, draughtsman, graphic designer, film maker.

Armas studied Cuban archaeology, and rupestrian art in particular. He was a caricaturist at first, then a graphic designer and film maker. He established the cartoon department at the Cuban institute of cinematic arts. He won several prizes for this work. In ...

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Atkinson, Conrad  

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31 October 2011
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British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in California.

Born 1940, in Cleator Moor (West Cumbria).

Painter, ceramicist, print artist, film maker, photographer. Textiles.

Conrad Atkinson graduated from Carlisle College of Art (1961), Liverpool College of Art (1962) and the Royal Academy Schools in London (...

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Backer, Marcel de  

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31 October 2011
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Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1921, in Gentbrugge; died 1990.

Painter. Urban landscapes.

Marcel de Backer was a self-taught photographer, film maker and writer. He painted the old streets of his hometown in shades of grey.

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Baladi, Roland  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Lebanese, 20th century, male.

Born 12 July 1942, in Beirut.

Painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist.

Kinetic Art.

Roland Baladi permutated various techniques, notably drawings and photographs, to produce the Photograms he exhibited in Beirut in 1962. In 1971, Roland Baladi exhibited a piece entitled Cinetone...

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Baldessari, John  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

American, 20th century, male.

Born 17 June 1931, in National City (California).

Painter, video artist, photographer. Artist’s books.

Conceptual Art.

John Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California. At the end of the 1950s, he decided to abandon painting and burned his pictures. He has stated that he profoundly disagreed with art in general, and therefore decided to give people what they understood best: written language and photography....

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Barradas, Rafaél  

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31 October 2011
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Uruguayan, 20th century, male.

Active in Spain.

Born 5 February 1898, in Montevideo; died 12 February 1929, in Montevideo.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects, genre scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes. Stage sets, comic cartoons.

The son of Spanish emigrants, Rafaél Pérez Barradas spent most of his artistic life in Spain, where he was soon contributing illustrations to the press. In 1913, he traveled in Italy and France, then settled in Condal. In 1928, he decided to return to Uruguay. He died prematurely of an illness. He is considered to have formed part of the Spanish artistic avant-garde at the beginning of the 1920s. Starting in a Post-Impressionist style that was soon influenced by Gauguin, he rapidly lightened his palette and became interested in the Cubist vision of reality while breaking out of the unitary vision of form. His canvases, with grey and ochre colours, represent landscapes and burlesque scenes from daily life. ...

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Barthold, Manuel  

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31 October 2011
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American, 20th century, male.

Active naturalised in France.

Born 9 September 1874, in Moscow, USA; died 1947, in Montevideo (Uruguay).

Painter. Figure compositions, portraits.

Manuel Barthold learned the art of drawing in the USA, then went to Paris in 1894, where he was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon. In ...

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Bellini, Gilbert  

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31 October 2011
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Uruguayan, 20th century, male.

Born in Montevideo.

Painter.

Bellini exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929 and 1930.

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Belzère, Stéphane  

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31 October 2011
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French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 6 November 1963, in Argenteuil.

Painter, installation artist, video artist.

Stéphane Belzère studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1984 to 1989. From 1991 to 1993, he lived in Berlin, and he works in both Paris and Berlin....

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Benzaken, Carole  

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31 October 2011
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French, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in Los Angeles since 1997.

Born 1964, in Grenoble.

Painter, video artist. Designs for stained glass.

Carole Benzaken was a student in Paris at the École des Arts Appliqués, and then studied under Kermarrec and Cueco at the École des Beaux-Arts. She won a prize for painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in ...