swap_horiz Kara Walker Alternatives

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Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly was an American painter, known for calligraphic marks, classical references, and long residence in Italy afte...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Calligraphic

8.9 Great

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Neo-Expressionist painter, notable for text-filled figures and symbols after his la...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Street Art

8.7 Great

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Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an American artist and painter, known for bold line figures that grew from New York subway drawings and...

American Contemporary Pop 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall is an American painter whose large-scale works center Black life; his 2016 retrospective Mastry ope...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Figurative

8.3 Great

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Chuck Close

Chuck Close was an American painter known for large-scale photorealist portraits, later using gridded color cells after...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Portrait

8.2 Great

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Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous British street artist known for satirical stencils, including works painted on the West Bank barr...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Satirical

8.2 Great

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Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a Scottish-born painter known for atmospheric landscapes and memory-based images; his 1994 painting Canoe-...

Contemporary Canada 21ST Century Britain

8.2 Great

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell was an American illustrator and painter known for Saturday Evening Post covers and the 1943 wartime seri...

Narrative American Illustration 20TH Century

8.1 Great

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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian painter known for pale, understated images drawn from history and media; he helped renew figura...

Contemporary 21ST Century Muted Belgian

7.9 Good

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Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary painter, born in 1962, known for the Superflat movement and anime-derived mo...

Contemporary Pop Japanese 21ST Century

7.9 Good

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Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford is an American painter known for abstract works built from paper and urban materials; he represented the U...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Abstract

7.8 Good

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Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a British painter known for monumental depictions of flesh and bodies; she emerged with the Young Briti...

Contemporary 21ST Century Large Scale British

7.7 Good

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Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American painter known for flat, large-scale portraits and landscapes, a style he refined in New York fr...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Flat

7.7 Good

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Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown is a British painter based in New York, noted for energetic, semi-abstract figure painting and a 2023 surve...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Figurative

7.6 Good

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N.C. Wyeth

N.C. Wyeth was an American illustrator of the Brandywine School, best known for Scribner's 1911 edition of Treasure Isla...

Narrative American Illustration 20TH Century

7.6 Good

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Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter known for placing Black sitters in Old Master poses, including Barack Obam...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Portrait

7.5 Good

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Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch is a German painter associated with the New Leipzig School, known for enigmatic scenes blending socialist real...

German Contemporary 21ST Century Surrealist

7.5 Good

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Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili is a British painter, born in Manchester in 1968, who won the 1998 Turner Prize for layered works using glit...

Contemporary 21ST Century Britain Mixed Media

7.5 Good

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born painter, born in 1983, known for layered domestic scenes combining painting,...

Contemporary 21ST Century Collage Figurative

7.4 Good

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Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter, born in 1962, known for psychologically charged figurative paintings that mix art...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Female

7.2 Good