swap_horiz Kehinde Wiley Alternatives

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was an American portrait painter active in Europe, famed for society portraits and the controversial...

Realism American 19TH Century Portrait

9.3 Excellent

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was a British painter, noted for unsparing portraits and nudes built from thick paint, including Benefits S...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter in London and Paris, best known for the 1871 portrait Arrangement in...

American 19TH Century Atmospheric Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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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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Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins was an American realist painter known for anatomical precision and Philadelphia subjects, including the 18...

Realism American Academic 19TH Century

8.8 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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Kara Walker

Kara Walker is an American artist known for black cut-paper silhouettes confronting slavery and race, with a major Tate...

Narrative American Contemporary 21ST 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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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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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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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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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

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Alfred Leslie

Alfred Leslie was an American painter and filmmaker who moved from Abstract Expressionism to stark figurative portraits...

Realism American 20TH Century Portrait

6.7 Fair