Modern Artists A - D

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

Career

Early years

Though born in Borgonovo in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland near the Italian border, Alberto Giacometti spent most of his childhood in the nearby town of Stampa. His father was a Post-Impressionist who encouraged his son's interest in sculpture.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was a Jewish-Italian painter and sculptor who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis - exacerbated by a lifestyle of excess - at the age of 35.

Andrew Warhola, better known as Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), was an American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and celebrity. Warhol also worked as a publisher, music producer and actor. He had experience in commercial art, and was one of the founders of the Pop art movement in the United States.

Aristide Maillol (April 8, 1861–September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.

Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. His early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin.

Asger Oluf Jorn (March 3, 1914 - May 1, 1973) was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark and baptized Asger Oluf Jorgensen. In 1946 he changed his name into Asger Oluf Jorn. He was a founding member of the Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist.

Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; November 12, 1840 – November 17, 1917) was a French sculptor, and one of the eminent sculptors of the modern era. He played a pivotal role in the art of the late nineteenth century, both excelling at and rebelling against the Beaux-Arts tradition. His work redefined sculpture at a time when painters such as Cézanne and Monet were redefining painting through Impressionism.

Hepworth's Family of Man in bronze, 1970, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. Although not as renowned, she is generally considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore.

Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she met Moore) and the Royal College of Art. She later studied for a period in Italy.

Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.

Newman was born in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He studied philosophy at the City College of New York and worked in his father's business manufacturing clothing. From the 1930s he made paintings, said to be in an expressionist style, but eventually destroyed all these works.

Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century.

Chris Marker (born July 29, 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.

He is best known for directing La Jetee (1962), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Biography

He was born Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve, in Paris, France.