Apolonia Sokol paints her friends at life-size, staring straight back at you. Born in Paris in 1988, this French figurative…
A French painter who never grew up riding horses now commands the contemporary Western art scene. Mark Maggiori paints cowboys,…
Critics dismissed him as sentimental. The public made him America’s most beloved artist. Norman Rockwell painted the country’s idealized self-portrait…
Raymond Pettibon turned punk rock flyers into museum pieces without losing an ounce of rage. Born Raymond Ginn in 1957,…
In 1999, Tracey Emin exhibited an unmade bed at Tate Modern and became the most talked-about artist in Britain overnight.…
Francis Newton Souza painted like someone with something to confess and nothing to lose. His canvases don’t whisper. Born in…
A woman’s face emerges in stark black and white, red lips the only concession to color. You’ve seen this image…
Most painters use brushes. Ayako Rokkaku uses her bare hands. The self-taught Japanese artist paints exclusively with her fingers, creating…
A 13-year-old stands on a step ladder, working on a canvas twice his height. His paintings sell for six figures.…
Victor Vasarely made paintings that refuse to sit still. His geometric grids pulse, bulge, and warp even though they’re just…