Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dora Maar (1907 – 1997). Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Too often dismissed as ‘simply’ a model and muse for Pablo Picasso, any examination of her life and...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jean Hélion (1904–1987). Hélion (1904 – 1987) was a French painter who “worked with both non-objective and figurative painting over the course of his career, often straddling the two” : his abstract compositions...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Betye Saar. Betye Irene Saar is an African American artist who works primarily in assemblage creating artworks that are direct responses to her political and social environment in the United States. Saar is also a fine printmaker :...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Leon Golub (1922 – 2004). Golub was an American painter whose work has been described as neo expressionist, and his works have both a dynamism and starkness as they responded to larger social and history issues. Best known for...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 – 2002). A French – American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books, she was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle. She is recognized as one of the...
