Germany. 1930 - 2025
Painting, assemblage, sculpture
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1936 Piraeus, Greece - 2017 Rome, Italy. Known for: Found object assemblage, installations, arte povera.
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations*... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in the late 1960s as a leader of Arte Povera* (“Poor Art”), a mostly Italian movement that, responding to the political turbulence of the time, embraced a defiantly anticapitalist, anti-hierarchical philosophy of art making. The term alluded to the... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in the late 1960s as a leader of Arte Povera* (“Poor Art”), a mostly Italian movement that, responding to the political turbulence of the time, embraced a defiantly anticapitalist, anti-hierarchical philosophy of art making. The term alluded to the Polish director Jerzy Grotowski’s concept of “poor theater,” stripped of sets and props to encourage direct engagement.... Read full biography
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Germany. Born 1955
Large-scale photographs-social commentary
New York / Austria. 1919 - 2014
Abstract self portriature, figurative art
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
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Mixed media sculpture, collage, installation
New York / Germany. 1943 - 1977
Color fields, installation views
New York / England. Born 1962
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New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
Germany, France. Born 1945
Conceptual painting, sculpture, installation, found objects
New York, Nevada. Born 1979
Paintings, sculpture
Italy. 1933 - 1963
Conceptual painting and sculpture
Germany. Born 1970
Sculpture and painting
Germany, France. 1913 - 1951
Abstract painting, portrait photography, graphic arts
California, Texas / Italy, France. 1915 - 1995
Abstract painting, collage-'Art Informal'
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
Italy. 1901 - 1986
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Germany. Born 1963
Three-dimensional, minimal sculpture, mixed media painting
New York / Italy. Born 1956
Conceptual art, mixed media non-objective painting
England, United Kingdom, Italy. Born 1943/1942
Collaborative geometric-grid symbolic painting
New York, New Jersey / Japan. Born 1974
Graffitii tag artist, toy figure paintings, large-scale iconic cartoon image sculpture
New York / Italy. Born 1952
Mod figure, abstraction, graphics
California / Italy. 1926 - 2025
Spherical abstract public sculpture, religious themes
Venezuela, France. 1923 - 2019
Kinetic and op art, painting, design, graphics, teaching
Spain. 1924 - 2002
Mod sculpture, abstract works on paper-collage
Belgium. 1924 - 1976
Installations, conceptual art, mixed-media sculpture, poetry, caligraphy
New York, California / Italy, Switzerland. 1912 - 1976
Abstract, cubist painting, murals, teaching
Italy. Born 1933
Life-size figure paintings, photoscreen images, conceptual
New York, Connecticut. Born 1954
Sculptor-body parts, graphics
Italy. 1918 - 2006
Urban street art-pasted layered images
France. 1885 - 1954
Modernist, abstract sculpture, collage, drawings
New York, Michigan. Born 1955
Psychological portrait painting, abstraction
United States, Germany. Born 1954
Abstraction