French, 20th century, male.
Born 10 February 1944, in Rocroi (Ardennes).
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets.
Aballain graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1965.
He designed the stage sets and costumes for A Season in Hell...
Yugoslav, 20th–21st century, female.
Active in the Netherlands.
Born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade (now in Serbia).
Performance artist. Multimedia.
Conceptual Art, Body Art.
Marina Abramović studied at the fine arts academy in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970 and began executing her first performance pieces, films, and videos between 1973 and 1976. She taught at the fine arts academy of Novi Sad from 1973 to 1975, the year she met Ulay in Amsterdam. They not only shared the same birth date but also the same artistic concerns. That meeting was described thus: ‘When we met for the first time in Amsterdam in 1975, we decided to meet up again on neutral territory, somewhere between Amsterdam and Belgrade. We chose Prague, which is exactly in the middle.’ From that time until the late 1980s, they lived and worked together. They describe their collaborative works as ‘relation-work’, a phrase that expresses their desire for total fusion....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1944, in Paris.
Performance artist.
Absil works within a group, creating environments similar to those of happenings. These require the participation of spectators, as can be seen in his Promenade in Arrows, created for the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris in ...
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....
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in Marseilles.
Installation artist, sculptor, action artist, photographer.
Conceptual Art.
Boris Achour, who was a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, received a three-month extra-mural bursary from the Villa Médicis that he spent in Los Angeles in ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Marciana Marina (Livorno); died 1971, in Milan.
Painter, ceramicist, illustrator, scenographer, writer. Stage costumes.
Futurism.
Giovanni Acquaviva studied philosophy and law at the University of Pisa, while devoting himself to illustration at the same time. He founded the Futurist group ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1904, in Paris; died 27 August 1967, in Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor).
Sculptor (including bronze), engraver (burin). Monuments, designs for tapestries, stage costumes and sets.
Henri Adam's father, a goldsmith and jeweller, taught him the rudiments of the trade while he was studying at the Collège Lavoisier. He also took classes in drawing, first at the École Germain-Pillon and subsequently at the Atelier de la Ville de Paris in Montparnasse, before moving to the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited various paintings between ...
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA from 1963.
Born 1942, in Winschoten; died 1975, while crossing the Atlantic.
Performance artist, happenings artist, installation artist, photographer.
Conceptual Art.
Bas Jan Ader settled in the USA when he was 21 years old, and studied art and philosophy at the University of California in Irvine, where he would later teach. After ...
Finnish, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in Helsinki.
Born 1959, in Hämeenlinna.
Video installation artist, film producer, photographer, performance artist.
Conceptual Art.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila was a student at the university of Helsinki from 1980 to 1985 and studied film and video at the London College of Painting. In ...
British, 19th century, male.
Active in Londonc.1880.
Born 4 November 1826, in Paris; died 13 December 1906, in London.
Painter, poet, novelist, dramatist, musician. Landscapes.
Charles Hamilton Aidé is above all remembered as an accomplished dramatist and musician. He travelled extensively and made sketches on his travels. He submitted three canvases to the Grafton Gallery in ...
Belgian, 20th century, female.
Born 1903.
Painter. Stage costumes.
Primarily a dancer, Akarova was married to the painter Marcel Louis Baugniet, and it was probably under his influence as an artist of the Avant-Garde that she too emerged as a painter. Some exhibitions held in Belgium in the 1990s acknowledged her contribution to the art of the early 20th century....
Mexican, 20th century, male.
Born 1936, in Mexico.
Artist. Multimedia.
Conceptual Art.
Alcaraz-Laus was noticed at the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris in 1971. Under the title Double 1, he presented an encounter between a dancer and that dancer's image, a conceptual production revolving around the theme of the body and its representation, one that was in favour at that time....
female.
Painter.
Ancient Greek.
Alcisthene is perhaps the name of a woman painter from antiquity, but scholars disagree on the meaning of the relevant passage in Pliny. '(Pinxit) Alkisthene saltatorem' (Alcisthene [painted] the dancer) should perhaps be read as 'Alkisthenem saltatorem' ([painted] the dancer Alkisthene). In the latter case, Alcisthene would be the name of a (male) dancer depicted in a painting from the Greek period....
Russian, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1754, in St Petersburg; died 1824, in St Petersburg.
Painter, watercolourist. Urban landscapes, architectural views, still-lifes. Stage sets (?).
The son of a retired soldier employed as a custodian at the fine arts academy in St Petersburg, Alekseev trained there ...
Romanian, 20th century, male.
Born in Bucharest.
Painter. Stage costumes.
Alkar Alexandresco was important as a theatrical costume designer and exhibited as such in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants in 1927. Assyrian Idol is quoted in a private collection.
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 May 1943, in Wichita (Kansas).
Sculptor, environmental artist, performance artist, video artist.
Terry Allen studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, receiving a BFA in 1966. His work is inspired by his travels in Mexico, Thailand, China and Colorado. He has taught at California State University Fresno (...
French, 20th century, female.
Painter, illustrator. Figures, fruit. Stage costumes and sets.
A graduate of the École des Arts appliqués, Géraldine Allier started out as a graphic illustrator in the advertising and publishing industries. With the help of Louis Bercut, with whom she worked for several years, she then started making her own sets and costumes: ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1960.
Born 1934, in Bad Bellingen.
Painter (including gouache), performance artist, watercolourist, engraver (etching), monotype artist, draughtsman. Stage sets, artists' books, posters.
Hermann Amann is very active. He has published written works and given numerous lectures on painting. As a painter, he produces very colourful, very musical works, with a dynamic rhythm, made up of geometric figures in thick lines or black rings, biomorphic forms and graphic signs. He also produces engravings (etchings and monotypes), artists' books ( ...
Native American (Choctaw), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1959, in Phoenix.
Beadworker, painter, fashion designer, glass artist , performance artist.
Marcus Amerman is a distinguished Choctaw artist who works in a number of media and in performance (as a figure called ‘Buffalo Man’) but is best known for creating his own approach to the Native American tradition of beadworking. Amerman has a BA in Fine Art from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and also studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and the Anthropology Film Center. He lives and works north of Santa Fe. Amerman uses a highly mimetic style in his beadwork to recreate, and hence reclaim, Indian images from history, as in his beaded version of the famous D.F. Barry photograph, ...
Italian, 18th century, female.
Active in London.
Engraver (mezzotint).
The sister of Venetian artist Jacopo Amigoni, she is known to have painted Beautiful Auretti, the portrait of a dancer.
