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The Artists
Everyone who made the stuff, sorted by the movement they made it in.
Neoclassical & Romantic
Neoclassicism
Jacques-Louis David
The severe master
Ingres
Apostle of line
Antonio Canova
The sculptor
Angelica Kauffman
History painter, RA founder
Benjamin West
History painter
Anton Raphael Mengs
The painted manifesto
Winckelmann
The founding voice
Romanticism
Francisco Goya
The lone prophet of the dark
Théodore Géricault
Disaster on the big wall
Eugène Delacroix
Champion of color and revolt
J.M.W. Turner
Light dissolving the world
Caspar David Friedrich
Landscape as religion
John Constable
Poet of English weather
Modern
Realism
Courbet
The firebrand
Millet
Peasant painter
Daumier
The satirist
Bonheur
Animalier
Corot
Barbizon
Rousseau
Barbizon
Impressionism
Monet
The light-chaser
Renoir
Warmth & crowds
Pissarro
The conscience
Degas
The indoor eye
Morisot
Founder, not footnote
Cassatt
The American
Sisley
Pure landscapist
Caillebotte
Painter & patron
Manet
The patriarch
Bazille
The lost one
Post-Impressionism
Cézanne
The architect
Van Gogh
Colorist of feeling
Gauguin
The synthesist
Seurat
The scientist
Toulouse-Lautrec
The chronicler
Bernard
Synthetist, correspondent
Sérusier
Talisman painter
Bonnard
Intimate Nabi
Vuillard
Pattern Nabi
Denis
The theorist
Fauvism
Matisse
The leader
Derain
The co-leader
Vlaminck
The wild man
Marquet
The one who stepped back
Dufy
The decorative Fauve
van Dongen
The glamour wing
Cubism
Picasso
Pioneer
Braque
Pioneer
Juan Gris
Synthesist
Léger
Salon cubist
Delaunay
Orphist
Metzinger
Theorist
Futurism
Marinetti
The impresario
Boccioni
Painter-sculptor, theorist
Balla
The elder; toward abstraction
Carrà
Painter of the crowd
Severini
The Paris man
Russolo
Painter turned composer
Dada
Tzara
The ringmaster
Hugo Ball
The founder
Arp
Chance
Duchamp
The readymade
Picabia
The machine-painter
Höch
Photomontage
Hausmann
The monteur
Grosz
The savage pen
Surrealism
Breton
The pope
Ernst
The inventor
Dalí
The showman
Magritte
The deadpan philosopher
Miró
Automatist of shape
Carrington
Muse turned master
Oppenheim
The object-maker
de Chirico
The forerunner
Masson
Automatism
Tanguy
The inner landscape
Abstract Expressionism
Pollock
The drip; “action” painting
de Kooning
The figure that would not die
Rothko
The color-field mystic
Newman
The man with one stripe
Krasner
Written out as “the wife”
Frankenthaler
Inventor of the soak-stain
Gorky
The bridge from Surrealism
Kline
Black and white
Still
The recluse
Pop Art
Hamilton
Father of British Pop
Paolozzi
The proto-Pop collagist
Warhol
The icon and the machine
Lichtenstein
The comic-strip painter
Oldenburg
Maker of giant soft things
Rosenquist
The billboard painter
Boty
The woman British Pop erased
Johns
The sign-painter