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Lorna Simpson

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:12:40 UTC

Simpson uses the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary America.

Glenn Ligon

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:15:37 UTC

Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the influential writings and speech of 20th-century cultural figures including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, and Richard Pryor.

Saya Woolfalk

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:17:17 UTC

New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.

Frida Kahlo

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:19:14 UTC

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter who is considered one of the most important feminist artists of the 20th century. Her work often depicted the female experience and the female body, and was heavily influenced by her own experiences of physical and emotional pain.

Kehinde Wiley

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:21:56 UTC

Kehinde Wiley is an American painter known for his large-scale, highly stylized portraits of African American men and women. He often paints his subjects in the style of traditional European portraiture, but sets them in contemporary urban environments and poses them in heroic and powerful positions.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:25:59 UTC

Yiadom-Boakye works with oil paint on canvas or coarse linen. Ideas for her paintings are prompted by a variety of observations – a colour, a composition, a gesture or particular direction of the light. She uses found images, memories, literature and the history of painting as sources for her work. Each painting is an exploration of a different mood, movement and pose, worked out on the surface of the canvas.

Firelei Baez

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:27:57 UTC

Dominican artist based in New York City known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture. Her art explores the Western canon through the elements of non-Western reading

Art 21 - Los Angeles

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:43:21 UTC

Edgar Arceneaux investigates historical patterns through drawings, installations, and multimedia events. Part of a longer series investigating Los Angeles based artists.

Kerry James Marshall

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:49:34 UTC

From paintings and videos to his comic strip featuring African sculptures, Kerry James Marshall’s work unites influences from Renaissance painting and African-American traditions to question the authority of history and “reclaim the image of Blackness.”

Tommy Kha

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 02:59:29 UTC

With a humorous and poignant touch, Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure.

Joshua Davis

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:03:46 UTC

New York-based award-winning designer, technologist, author, and artist in new media.

Debbie Millman

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:04:45 UTC

Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an illustrator, author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters.

Beeple

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:07:17 UTC

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and VR / AR work.

Golan Levin

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:09:14 UTC

Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.

Paula Scher

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:11:59 UTC

Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. Described as the “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” Scher straddles the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. Iconic, smart, and accessible, her images have entered into the American vernacular.

Jessica Walsh

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:13:25 UTC

Jessica Walsh is an American designer, art director, illustrator and educator. She was a partner of the design studio Sagmeister & Walsh, and the founder of the creative agency &Walsh. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts.

Mary Blair

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:16:02 UTC

Though much of her art veers away from naturalism toward abstraction, she was one of Walt Disney’s favorite artists; he personally responded to her use of color, naïve graphics, and the storytelling aspect in her pictures, especially the underlying emotions palpable in much of her art.

Bex Glendining

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:18:22 UTC

Bex Glendining (she/they) is a biracial queer, UK based illustrator, comic artist and colourist. Bex has worked as a cover artist, colourist and interior artist on projects such as Seen: Edmonia Lewis, Penultimate Quest, Rolled & Told, Lupina, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and When Life Gives You Mangoes.

Candice Messado

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:19:39 UTC

Candice Messado is a Jamaican born Illustrator, Color Designer and Background Painter who currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked for studios like Warner Bros. Animation, Netflix Animation and Disney TV Animation!

Colin Laurel

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:21:08 UTC

He/him, they/them. Black, trans, trying their best. b. 1992

Evan Monteiro

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:23:05 UTC

Evan Monteiro is an Illustrator from Providence, RI. Majored in Illustration at RCAD. Currently a Splash Artist at Riot Games.

Mark Rothko

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:29:29 UTC

Mark Rothko was an American Abstract artist of the mid-20th century. Although Rothko was a very well-educated and academic man who spoke four languages, his artistic skills were largely innate, as he had next to no training in painting or drawing.

Nonetheless, he knew great fame and critical acclaim as a member of the first major American artistic movement recognized by the art world, abstract expressionists.

Flóra Borsi

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:32:38 UTC

Flora is a fine art photographer. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams.

Erik Johansson

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:33:59 UTC

Erik Johansson (b. 1985) is a Swedish photographer and visual artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. He is known for creating surreal worlds through the combination of photographs. He primarily focuses on personal projects and exhibitions, and his approach to photography is unique in that he seeks to capture ideas rather than moments.

Max Asabin

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:37:33 UTC

Max is a Photoshop artist whose main goal is to tell stories through his photos. His style involves light painting, colourful smoke, digital technology, mostly in an urban setting. He also shares which elements he used to create each picture, which might inspire the viewer to try out something like this on their own.

Georgia O’Keeffe

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:40:03 UTC

American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism"

Annie Liebovitz

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:44:34 UTC

Celebrated American photographer best known for her engaging and dramatic celebrity portraits. Adept at capturing her subject’s personality and inner life, her images reflect intimate or staged moments that reveal the playful and expressive aspects of her sitters

Cindy Sherman

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:45:47 UTC

Cindy Sherman has probed the construction of identity, playing with the visual and cultural codes of art, celebrity, gender, and photography.

Édouard Manet

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:50:11 UTC

Michael Light

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:55:47 UTC

Drone photography

Shirin Neshat

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 03:58:55 UTC

Iranian-American artist whose work addresses the political and social issues facing women in the Middle East. She often explores the relationship between Islamic culture, gender, and power through her photographs, videos, and installations.

Barbara Kruger

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:03:37 UTC

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist whose work often addresses issues of gender, power, and consumer culture. Her work often features text and images that confront societal attitudes towards women.

Karen Katar

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:09:57 UTC

Karen Katar is a Mexican/Canadian visual artist based in Montreal. She is internationally recognized for her contemporary surreal digital art and self-taught career path.

Neville Brody

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:16:57 UTC

Neville Brody: an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. He is known for his work on magazines such as The Face, Arena, and Fuse, as well as his corporate work for companies like Calvin Klein and Swatch. He is also known for his typeface designs and his influential work in digital typography.

Paul Rand

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:20:04 UTC

Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.

José Clemente Orozco

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:28:31 UTC

Mexican painter and muralist who was also a leading member of the Mexican muralism movement. He is known for his powerful and emotive imagery that often addressed social and political issues.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 04:48:19 UTC

leading figure of the Neo-expressionist movement. He began his career as a graffiti artist in the late 1970s and quickly gained attention for his distinctive style, which combined elements of street art, abstract expressionism, and social commentary

Gail Anderson

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:12:35 UTC

Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design.

Milton Glazer

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:14:56 UTC

To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man — one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work.

Cao Fei

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:17:44 UTC

Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of “Second Life.”

Trevor Paglen

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:20:02 UTC

Trevor Paglen was born in 1974 in Camp Springs, Maryland. Trained as a geographer and photographer, Paglen makes the invisible visible by documenting the American surveillance state of the 21st century. From his vantage points at various public locations, he photographs distant military facilities, capturing extreme telephoto images of stealth drones. Turning his vision to the night sky, he traces the paths of information-gathering satellites.

Cindy Sherman

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:21:40 UTC

The segment surveys thirty years of untitled works in which the artist photographs herself in various scenes and guises, grouped into informally-named series such as fairy tales, centerfolds, history portraits, Hollywood/Hampton types, and clowns.

Paul Pfeiffer

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-24 20:23:34 UTC

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1966 but spent most of his childhood in the Philippines. Pfeiffer relocated to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness.

Norval Morrisseau

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-28 16:54:41 UTC

Kara Walker

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-28 16:59:52 UTC

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. She has gained national and international recognition for her cut-paper silhouettes depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation. Walker has also used drawing, painting, text, shadow puppetry, film, and sculpture to expose the ongoing psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Her work leads viewers to a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes.

Thomas Evans

nsiebert6 — 2023-01-31 01:24:48 UTC

Thomas Evans, a.k.a. Detour, is an all-around creative specializing in large scale public art, interactive visuals, portraiture, immersive spaces, and creative directing. His focus is to create work where art and innovation meet.

Ira Volkova

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:30:17 UTC

We love the pastel hues present in Ira’s nature-filled canvases. A classically trained artist, she is a graduate of the Kharkov Art College and the Kiev National Academy of Fine Arts. Ira’s paintings are stunning, hyper-realistic depictions of flora and fauna in a joyful palette and they never fail to brighten up any space.

Lulu Chen

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:32:32 UTC

Lulu Chen is an award-winning illustrator, animator, and visual development artist who loves nature and animals. She has studied children’s book illustration in San Francisco and London. She then found her passion in storytelling and animation

Alexis Franklin

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:36:02 UTC

Alexis Franklin is a 26 year old videographer from Texas whose hobby is digital painting. Her works are mostly surreal and feature expressive subjects with a style very similar to oil on canvas. She works in Photoshop and Procreate.

Kiko Rodriguez

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:37:45 UTC

Kiko Rodríguez is a versatile artist and graphic designer based in Miami. He uses illustration as a primary language for reflection and meditation. In his work, he experiments by fusing traditional and digital techniques. With a clean and precise style, Kiko creates organic, dynamic and colorful pieces.

Lynn Chen

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:39:51 UTC

Lynn Chen is a skilled visual development artist from China, currently residing in LA. Her main occupation is a senior 2D artist at FunPlus Games.

Ekaterina Savic

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:42:35 UTC

Ekaterina Savic is an independent illustrator of books with Russian roots. Currently, she lives in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The main directions of Ekaterina’s work are children’s books, character design, and writing stories.

Pawel Nolbert

nsiebert6 — 2023-05-22 19:43:17 UTC

Pawel Nolbert (you may know him as HelloColor) is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He works as an illustrator, art director and graphic designer on a commercial basis in the spheres of entertainment, advertising, as well as for numerous digital art projects.

Pearl D'Souza

nsiebert6 — 2023-11-16 20:36:24 UTC

Pearl D'Souza is an illustrator and visual artist from Goa, India. Her work reflects her passion for mental health, gender, inclusivity and representation.

Yayoi Kusama

nsiebert6 — 2024-05-01 17:46:07 UTC

If you don't know artist Yayoi Kusama by her brightly-colored dresses and red hair, you will surely recognize her work. In particular, her use of dots.

Free Human Pose reference images

nsiebert6 — 2026-06-04 19:43:55 UTC