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Chagall, Marc Marc Chagall (English pronunciation: (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian–French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique career in virtually... {read more}	Chagoya, Enrique Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and print-maker. His subject is the changing nature of culture.He was born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an Indian nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and... {read more}
Chaitram, Audra Audra Chaitram is an innovative British designer whose creative skills and knowledge in textile design and surface pattern has earned her recognition on an international basis. She has designed in Paris, London, Italy, and Switzerland and is... {read more}	Chamberlain, Michael Born March 25, 1983, Chamerblain's desire is to capture the essence of a subject while maintaining the look and feel of paint. I'm motivated by the beauty surrounding us in simple, everyday objects and scenes. He paints exclusively in oils and enjoy... {read more}
Chambers, Stephen Stephen Chambers' work hovers between abstract and figurative, minimal and decorative, where colourful images of figures are held in a kind of suspended animation. His paintings speak of states of mind, behaviours and sensibilities which disrupt... {read more}	Chancel, Adrien Adrien Chancel was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the latter 1870's. He worked in the atelier of Constant Moyaux. As a student, Chancel was known for his inventive and articulate use of iron and glass. In the Grand Prix project of 1877, An... {read more}
Chaprnka, Greg Greg Chaprnka was born in Baltimore, MD on February 2nd, 1985. He spent most of his life living north of Baltimore and recently relocated between Washington D.C. and Baltimore. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UMBC in 2007 and has... {read more}	Charles, Caroline Caroline Charles began in the world of fashion art school followed by a couture apprenticeship and a stint as a photographer's assistant; she then worked for Mary Quant and was inspired by couturiers as well as the youth quake of the early 60's in... {read more}
Charlot, Jean Born in Paris, France 1897, naturalized American , died in Hawaii in 1979. He synthesized in his works the traditions from his diversified cultural lineage,Russian ,Jewish by his father side , French and Mexican by his mother side. He moved to... {read more}	Charlot, Jean Born in Paris, France 1897, naturalized American , died in Hawaii in 1979. He synthesized in his works the traditions from his diversified cultural lineage,Russian ,Jewish by his father side , French and Mexican by his mother side. He moved to... {read more}
Chase, William Merritt Chase, William Merritt, 1849–1916, American painter, b. Williamsburg, Ind., studied in Indianapolis and in Munich under Piloty. In 1878 he began his long career as an influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York and later established... {read more}	Chavelle, Rene Rene Chavelle was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1953. His first love was music, in particular the cello, which he studied as a child in Paris. Sketching, however, was his form of relaxation, and by the age of seventeen Chavelle was selling his... {read more}
Cheetham, Sean Sean Cheetham (32) teaches at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and studied with Mike Hussar at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. His classical but edgy paintings of the figure is attracting attention as new important figure... {read more}	Cheret, Jules Chéret, Jules, 1836–1932, French painter and draftsman, originator of the modern poster. His colorful, sophisticated designs for the theater and opera influenced Toulouse-Lautrec. Chéret introduced color lithography into France in 1866. Used with... {read more}
Cherry, Herman Herman Cherry (April 10, 1909-1992), an abstract painter was a contemporary and friend of the vanguard Abstract Expressionist artists.Known for the accomplished interplay of color and shape in his canvases, Mr. Cherry was still exhibiting up to the... {read more}	Chertova, Olga Olga Chertova was born in 1982, studied in Kaliningrad school of art and Kaliningrad State University. Awarded II Prize at Epson Photo competition Russia 2010. Her life experience is play in theater, work as teacher of graphics, a graphic designer... {read more}
Chevallier, Florence The characters of Florence Chevallier act in the real, preserve their own psychology by the gestural and their bodies - up until the moment where they meet the particular beauty defined as alone by Florence Chevalier in their presence in a scenery... {read more}	Chihuly, Dale Dale Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in 1957... {read more}
Childish, Billy Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work — he has detailed his love life and childhood... {read more}	CHIRICO, GIORGIO The Italian painter and graphic artist Giorgio de Chirico was born in Volvos, Greece, on July 7, 1888. He attended the drawing class of the Polytechnic School in Athens, later he and his brother - who became a famous composer, painter and writer... {read more}
Chistiakov, Nicholas Nicholas Chistiakov, (born 3 November 1981). Nicholas is a Conceptual artist, curator and painter. Nicholas is the only son of Irina and Alexander Chistiakov, a Minsk middle class family. A Great-grandfather of the artist - Alexander Staszewski... {read more}	Chiurai, Kudsanai Born in 1981 in Zimbabwe, Kudzanai Chiurai is considered to be one of the fastest rising talents in contemporary African art among others. He is the first black student to study fine art at the University of Pretoria in South Africa where he was... {read more}
Chong, Fay Chong Fay Chong was born in Canton, China and emigrated to the United States where he attended the University of Washington in Seattle. He studied privately with Leon Derbyshire and Mark Tobey. He was a member of the Northwest Printmakers, the Northwest... {read more}	Chrisptopher, William Rodolphus Birth: 1924 (Columbus, Georgia) Death: 1973Lived/Active GeorgiaPapers of William Christopher relate to his career as a painter, as well as aspects of his personal life; notably, documenting his participation in the Civil Rights movement. {read more}
Christensen, Dan Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007. He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field painting and... {read more}	Christo, Vladimir Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian June 13, 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935 – November 18, 2009) were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Their works include the... {read more}
Chu, Hung Hung Chu was born in Suzhou, China in 1960. He began to practice Chinese calligraphy when he was twelve and painting at eighteen. He learned ink and brush painting from Xu-Siao Jing and Hu-Yang Mu, two well-known artists with a profound... {read more}	Chun, Tan Tan Chun was born in Canton, China and developed an interest in art early in his childhood. He began his studies art in China and continued at the Art Student's League in New York after immigrating to America in 1974. The longtime exploration of... {read more}
Cidoncha, Rafael Born in Vigo, Spain 1952. Sculptor and Painter"The Madrid venue of the multi-national Marlborough Gallery is showing a must-see exhibition. Works done in these last four years by Rafael Cidoncha while staying at Bernard-Henri Levy's pied-à-terre in... {read more}	Clark, Larry Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in... {read more}
Clark, Leslie Artist Leslie Clark travels widely and paints constantly, searching for new perspective and old wisdom. Lured by exotic cultures around the globe, she paints with the urgency of knowing they may soon be transformed by the intrusion of the modern... {read more}	Clark, Obie The application of fine art ideals to ceramics and other crafts is not often successfully accomplished. Obie Clark has worked as a studio potter since 1974; creating products of such widespread interest to operate a viable business based on hand... {read more}
Clark, Susan With her company, Feat of Clay, Susan Clark uses clay as a storytelling medium to present snatches of conversation or life on a miniature stage, reduced in scale so that they can be readily observed. An appreciation for the seemingly minor... {read more}	Clarke, Henry Henry Clarke was born in California in 1919. In his late twenties he took temporary work in the renowned studios of Conde Nast, New York. Inspired by the fashion greats Horst, Penn and Beaton, Clarke began to take his own photographs and went on to... {read more}
Claxton, William Born in Pasadena, California, Claxton's works included a book of photographs of Steve McQueen, and Jazz Life, a book of photographs depicting jazz artists in the 1960s. He was most noted for his photography of jazz musicians including Chet Baker.... {read more}	Cloar, Carroll Carroll Cloar (January 18, 1913 – 1993) was a nationally known 20th century painter born in Earle, Arkansas, who focused his work on surreal views of Southern U.S. themes and on poetically portraying childhood memories of natural scenery, buildings... {read more}
Close, Chuck Chuck Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely... {read more}	Coath, Janie Janie Coath graduated from Central St Martins, London,in 1994 with a Master’s Degree in Illustration. The main areas of her work are for children’s books, book covers, greetings cards and editorial. Her clients have included Vogue, Brilliant Books,... {read more}
Cocteau, Jean Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René... {read more}	Coke, Van Deren Van Deren Coke, a curator, teacher, author and photographer with an eye for the experimental and surreal, died on July 11 at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 83 and lived in Santa Fe, N.M. His death was announced by his family. Starting in the... {read more}
Coldwell, Paul Paul Coldwell is Professor of Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, a position he has held since 2001. He contributes to the Graduate School programme at CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon) and is also engaged in PhD supervision,... {read more}	Colin, George George Colin sacked and moved flour for Pillsbury for 30 years before his retirement. During that time and the period that followed his retirement, he devoted his spare moments to painting. Apparently he has been obsessed with art most of his life... {read more}
Collinge, J. Walter J. Walter Collinge (1883-1964), Santa Barbara's master photographer of the early 1900's, captured the spirit and natural beauty of the region and its people in his exquisite collection of black and white photographs. Recognized by the Smithsonian... {read more}	Collins, Phil Phil Collins (born 1970) is an English artist, and Turner prize nominee.Phil Collins was born in Runcorn, England and now lives in Berlin He studied Drama and English at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1994. During his time there he... {read more}
Collishaw, Mat Matthew "Mat" Collishaw (born 1966, Nottingham, UK) is an artist based in London, and one of the Young British Artists. Collishaw typically takes imagery which is at once shocking yet strangely beautiful in order to examine the beguiling nature of... {read more}	Colomer, Joan Joan Colomer was raised amid the rich artistic heritage of his family and the inspirational landscape tradition immediately surrounding him. Born in San Feliu De Pallerols, near Olol in the Catalonia region of Spain, in 1965, Colomer was intimately... {read more}
Combas, Robert Robert Combas is a French painter and sculptor, born May 25, 1957 in Lyon, France and now living and working in Paris. He is widely recognized as a progenitor of the figuration libre movement[1] that began in Paris around 1980 as a reaction to the... {read more}	Condon, Brody Brody Condon was born in Mexico in 1974 and received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. His education includes residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2004 and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture... {read more}
Consagra, Pietro Pietro Consagra (October 4, 1920 – July 16, 2005) was one of Italy's leading postwar sculptors. Consagra was born in Mazara del Vallo, a town in western Sicily, on October 4. His father, a traveling salesman, did not register his birth until October... {read more}	Constable, John Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent. Constable became famous for his landscapes of Suffolk, Hampstead, Salisbury, and Brighton. The son of a prosperous miller, he showed artistic talent while... {read more}
Consuegra, Hugo Hugo Consuegra Sosa (1929 – 2003) was born in Havana. He resided in Madrid from 1967 – 1969 and then in New York from 1970 onward. The artist studied at the San Alejandro Academy, and graduated from the University of Havana as an architect. In... {read more}	Cook, Jamie Jamie Cook was raised amid the rich history of the Deep South in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his formal art training at Georgia State University where he majored in Fine Art and Photography. During this time he met John McWilliams, a photography... {read more}
Cooper, Debbie Being raised in and spending 25 years in Hawaii, Debbie Cooper’s heart has always been somewhere on a tropical island. Graduating from high school in Honolulu, Cooper moved to Maui for 18 years, where she graduated from college with an Associate of... {read more}	Copley, Alfred Lewin (Alcopley) Alfred Lewin Copley (1910 – 1992) was a German-American medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. As an artist he worked under the name Alcopley. He is best known as an artist for his abstract expressionist paintings... {read more}
Corbet, Edward Born in Chicago, Illinois, Edward Corbett was a painter in an abstract style of poetic landscape inspired by the various locations where he lived and traveled. He often titled his paintings for the location that inspired them, but he did not do... {read more}	Cornell, Jeff A master of creating an intoxicating mood of peacefulness, Jeff Cornell reveals a figure in an instance of time, captured forever with subtlety and sensuality to the fore. Aided by the sheer simplicity of each composition, the result is tasteful and... {read more}
Cornell, Joseph Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.Joseph... {read more}	Corpet, Vincent Vincent Corpet (born March 20, 1958)is a painter contemporary French born in 1958 in Paris . He lives and works in Paris. He is known for painting nude portraits of individuals who must stand completely alone in front of him.in March 1978 , when he... {read more}
Correggio, Antonio Correggio was born Antonio Allegri, but he is known as Correggio from the name of the small town in northern Italy where he was born in 1494. Most of his work was done in the nearby town of Parma where about 1524 he was commissioned to decorate a... {read more}	Cortes, Edouard Cortès was born in Lagny, France on April 26, 1882. During his early lifetime, Paris was the center of the art world. Artist from across the globe traveled there to study and paint it’s beautiful countryside and cities; views of Paris, or as it... {read more}
http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/spctttdoucy4ieuhyrxnv2t5gesl7iss {read more}	cottingham, robert Born in 1935, Robert Cottingham is of a generation of new 20th century painters, who in finding themselves confronted with the 19th century rival of painting, photography, successfully assimulated photography into their work. This movement in art... {read more}
Courbet, Gustave Gustave Courbet {koor-bay'}, b. June 10, 1819, d. Dec. 31, 1877, was the foremost realist painter of mid-19th-century France. A member of an affluent landowning family, Courbet remained close to his rural origins and frequently returned to his... {read more}	Coutu, Heidi Artist Heidi Coutu is most noted for her award winning English gardens and pastoral landscapes. Her paintings, characterized by their broad and energetic application of paint and brilliant use of color to create light, grace the collections of... {read more}
Coventry, Keith Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize. Coventry studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic - now the Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton) - from... {read more}	Covington, Daphne Born in Virginia, and raised in Atlanta, I have made my home in the city for nearly 40 years. Even as a child, I knew I would be an artist. Around the age of 8, I began signing my work "Daphne the Artist" and "Daphne the Great." I have pursued that... {read more}
Cowan, Craig Craig Cowan (American, 1947-1993) photographer of male torsos. {read more}	Cox, Tim Contemporary realist Tim Cox (1957-) is a painter and perfectionist who explores and documents experiences of the modern working cowboy, capturing the glorious landscape, majestic skies, energy, hard work and romance of life on America's open range... {read more}
Crewdson, Gregory Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. He attended John... {read more}	Crivelli, Carlo Crivelli, Carlo b. c.1430, d. after 1493, Venetian painter, who worked chiefly in the Marches. His paintings, notable for their rather harsh conception, include the Virgin and Child in the Ascoli Cathedral; a large altarpiece (National Gall., London... {read more}
Cross, Douglas Douglas Cross is an artist, working out of Huntington Beach, California. He enjoys working with new mediums to create, for the most part, 3 dimensional Mixed Media and Sculpture pieces. Originally from Indiana, He graduated from Purdue... {read more}	Crossan, Dana Dana Crossan received her BFA from the University of Delaware and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. A prolific painter, her work has been exhibited throughout the South as well as in Europe. Since moving to New York in 2005,... {read more}