BIOGRAPHY Honored for his distinct style and pioneering role among Jewish artists, Marc Chagall painted dream-like subjects rooted in personal history and Eastern European folklore. He worked in several mediums, including painting, printmaking, and book …
BIOGRAPHY Mel Bochner’s approach and materials constantly vary; in fact, the artist formally disavowed allegiance to a single material in his famous essay titled “the Medium and the Tedium” (2010). Bochner—who has produced paintings, installations, …
BIOGRAPHY One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s. Operating under the pseudonym SAMO, he emblazoned the …
BIOGRAPHY Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and ’60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. “Abstraction is …
