Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928 Pittsburgh, USA – 1987 New York, USA) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and transformative figures of post-war art, a pioneer whose exploration of mass media, celebrity culture, and mechanical reproduction reshaped the very definition of artistic practice in the twentieth century. His work—simultaneously cool, seductive, and conceptually incisive—remains […]
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann (1931 Cincinnati, USA – 2004 New York, USA) is regarded as one of the most celebrated and influential figures of American Pop Art, renowned for his striking visual language that fused classical themes with the bold immediacy of post-war consumer culture. His work—sensuous, graphic, and rigorously composed—helped redefine the possibilities of figurative painting […]
John Wesley
John Wesley (1928 Los Angeles, USA – 2022 New York, USA) is recognized as one of the most distinctive and enigmatic figures of post-war American art, celebrated for his idiosyncratic blend of Pop Art clarity, surrealist undertones, and a rigorously controlled formal language that transformed comic-strip imagery into a vehicle for psychological, erotic, and social […]
Vincenzo Agnetti
Vincenzo Agnetti (1926 – 1981 Milan, Italy) is regarded as one of the most incisive and intellectually rigorous figures of Italian post-war conceptual art, celebrated for his ability to interweave language, technology, and systems of communication into a coherent and radical artistic practice. After studying at the Brera Academy and taking his first steps within […]
Emilio Vedova
Emilio Vedova (1919 – 2006 Venice, Italy) was one of the leading figures of Italian post-war abstraction and a pivotal voice in European Informal Art. Born in Venice, Vedova grew up immersed in the artistic and cultural heritage of his city, which informed his early engagement with painting. In the 1930s, he began experimenting with […]
Massimo Campigli
Massimo Campigli (1895 Berlin, Germany – 1971 Saint-Tropez, France) was a prominent Italian painter whose work is celebrated for its synthesis of modernist abstraction and archaic, timeless imagery. Born in Berlin to Italian parents, Campigli spent his childhood in various European cities before settling in Italy, where he developed his distinctive artistic voice. He began […]
Marino Marini
Marino Marini (1901 Pistoia, Italy – 1980 Viareggio, Italy) was one of Italy’s foremost sculptors and painters of the 20th century, internationally celebrated for his expressive depictions of the human figure and the equestrian motif. Born in Pistoia, Tuscany, Marini studied at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts under Luigi Cavalieri and later attended the […]
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (1888 Volos, Greece – 1978 Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and writer, renowned as the founder of the Metaphysical art movement (Pittura Metafisica), which profoundly influenced Surrealism and modern art in the 20th century. Born to an Italian family in Volos, Greece, de Chirico spent his early childhood in Greece and […]
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (1871 Turin, Italy – 1958 Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and key figure of the Futurist movement. Born in Turin, he studied at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, where he developed a strong foundation in painting and composition. Early in his career, Balla worked in a variety of styles, including […]
Pietro Consagra
Pietro Consagra (1920 Mazara del Vallo, Italy – 2005 Milan, Italy) was a central figure in post-war Italian sculpture, known for his innovative exploration of surface, plane, and frontal vision in three-dimensional art. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, Consagra moved to Rome in 1944 and, in 1946, traveled to Paris, […]