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Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly (1928-2016) was an American painter whose work evolved from gestural abstraction to incorporate classical all...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Calligraphic

8.9 Great

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was an American painter whose work bridges street art and neo-expressionism. He gained...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Street Art

8.7 Great

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Keith Haring

Keith Haring was a prominent 20th-century American painter recognized for his distinctive pop art style. He created inst...

American Contemporary Pop 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall is a contemporary American painter known for expansive figurative paintings depicting Black subject...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Figurative

8.3 Great

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Chuck Close

Chuck Close was an American painter celebrated for his monumental photo-realist portraiture. His work meticulously repli...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Portrait

8.2 Great

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Banksy

Banksy is a contemporary painter primarily recognized for his distinctive stencil-based artwork. His work frequently emp...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Satirical

8.2 Great

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Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a contemporary painter working primarily in landscape and figurative styles. He creates evocative works of...

Contemporary Canada 21ST Century Britain

8.2 Great

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell was a prominent 20th-century American painter celebrated for his narrative illustrations. His work, freq...

Narrative American Illustration 20TH Century

8.1 Great

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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian contemporary painter recognized for his role in the international revival of figurative paintin...

Contemporary 21ST Century Muted Belgian

7.9 Good

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Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist who works across painting, sculpture, and commercial media. He is the...

Contemporary Pop Japanese 21ST Century

7.9 Good

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Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford is an American artist born in 1961 in Los Angeles, known for large-scale abstract works that incorporate m...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Abstract

7.8 Good

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Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a British painter known for large-scale works depicting the human body with an emphasis on flesh, weigh...

Contemporary 21ST Century Large Scale British

7.7 Good

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Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American figurative painter recognized for his large-scale portraits, cutouts, and landscape paintings....

American Contemporary 20TH Century Flat

7.7 Good

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Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown is a British painter based in New York whose energetic, semi-abstract canvases draw on centuries of art his...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Figurative

7.6 Good

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N.C. Wyeth

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882–1945) was an American illustrator and painter who trained under Howard Pyle in Wilmington, De...

Narrative American Illustration 20TH Century

7.6 Good

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Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American artist known for large-scale portraits that place contemporary Black sitters within poses a...

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 and the post-reunification revival of figurative pa...

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, whose work combines figurative imagery with layered surfac...

Contemporary 21ST Century Britain Mixed Media

7.5 Good

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born contemporary visual artist who is based in Los Angeles. Born in 1983, she is...

Contemporary 21ST Century Collage Figurative

7.4 Good

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Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter, born in 1962 in Philadelphia, known for her figurative works featuring female sub...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Female

7.2 Good