Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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Ayako Murao

Aycock, Alice

Aycock, Alice

American

American, born 1946

Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor and installation artist. She was an early artist in the land art movement in the 1970s, and has created many large-scale metal sculptures around the world. Aycock's drawings and sculptures of architectural and mechanical fantasies combine logic, imagination, magical thinking and science.

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Ayers, G.A.

American

American, active c. 1935

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Ayers, Susan

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Aylesford, Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of

British

British, 1751 - 1812

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Aymara

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Ay-O

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Ayón, Belkis

Cuban

Cuban, 1967 - 1999

Belkis Ayón (23 January 1967 – 11 September 1999) was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created large, highly detailed allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white, consisting of ghost-white figures with oblong heads and empty, almond-shaped eyes, set against dark, patterned backgrounds.

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Ayres, Gillian

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Ayres, Rolland

American

American, 1910 - 1982

Azaceta, Luis Cruz

Azaceta, Luis Cruz

American

American, born Cuba, 1942

Luis Cruz Azaceta (born April 5, 1942) is a Cuban-American painter. Azateca has been painting and drawing since the late 1970s. In usually large-format works executed with expressive colors, Cruz Azaceta has dealt with themes of urban violence, personal isolation in a large and overcrowded city, the conditions created by mismanaged government, the abuses and oppression of dictatorships, and in a number of works done in the late 1980s, the ravages of AIDS.

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Azechi Umetaro