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Yamamoto, Takato
Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei...
Yan, Pei-Ming
Yan Pei-Ming {Family name is Yan} is a Chinese painter born in 1960 in Shanghai. Since 1982 he has lived in Dijon, France. His most famous paintings are "epic-sized" portraits of Mao Zedong worked out in black and white or red and white. He works...
Yanes, Alex
Alex Yanes was born in Miami , July 20th 1977. His art is characterized by the romanticism and sublimeness of its color, content, and the deliberate precision of its form and lines. It is the duality between the conceptual and the graphical that...
Yarrington, Kyle
Working Artist currently based out of Maryland, USA. Nov. 24, 1987 - present Influences include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Marc Silvestri, and others. Interests that may have an effect on work began at a very young age. The artist highly...
Yasunobu, Kano
Brother of Kano Tan’yu and Kano Naonobu. He received his formal instruction as a painter from Kano Koi, who had also taught his brothers. At the age of ten he was selected to succeed Kano Sadanobu (1597–1623), the son of Kano Mitsunobu, as head of...
Yellin, Dustin
Dustin Yellin (born Los Angeles, July 22, 1975) is a contemporary artist living in New York. Yellin’s artworks are based on an accumulative process of painting and collaging on multiple layers of glass, creating three-dimensional forms. Yellin began...
Yeros, Dimitris
Dimitris Yeros, Artist-Photographer(born 1948)Dimitris Yeros is one of the most influential Greek artists of his generation and one of the first Greek artists to present Performances, Body Art, Video Art and Mail Art. 
Yoshida, Hiroshi
Hiroshi Yoshida (September 19, 1876 - April 5, 1950) was a 20th century Japanese painter and woodblock print maker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints....
Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist. He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His...
Young, Purvis
Purvis Young (February 4, 1943 – April 20, 2010) was an American artist. One of South Florida's most celebrated artists, his life story was captured in the 2006 feature length documentary film, Purvis of Overtown. Young was born in Liberty City,...
Yu, Youhan
Yu Youhan (born Shanghai 1943) came to prominence in the same early exhalation of the avant-garde with fellow Shanghai-based artist Li Shan. Yu  graduated from Central Institute of Art & Design, Beijing in 1973.  
Yue, Minjun
Living in Beijing, he is a representative of Cynical Realism, a movement which developed in the post-1989 era in Chinese art. 1989 not only marks the events at Tiananmen Square but also the closure of the China Avant Garde exhibition at the...
Yufit, Yevgeny
Yevgeny Yufit (also known as Evgenii Iufit), born 1961 in Leningrad) is a Russian filmmaker, photographer, and painter. He was a founding member of Russia's Parallel Cinema movement. Yufit first became famous for his macabre short films, which,...
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