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Dorothea Tanning was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. She was the second of three daughters to Andrew Peter Tanning (born Andreas Peter Georg Thaning; 1875–1943) and Amanda Marie Hansen (1879–1967), who named her for her maternal grandmother. After graduating from Galesburg Public High School in 1926, Tanning worked in the Galesburg Public Library (1927) and attended Knox College (1928–30). After two years of college she quit to pursue an artistic career, moving first to Chicago in 1930 and then to New York in 1935, where she supported herself as a commercial artist while working on her own painting. Tanning...

Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in, among other places, Mexico City, Chapingo, and Cuernavaca, Mexico; and San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City, United States. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; this was before he completed his 27-mural series known as Detroit Industry Murals.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a French sculptor widely regarded as one of the most important and influential artists in the history of modern sculpture. He is best known for his innovative and expressive approach to sculpting the human form. Rodin's work is often associated with the Impressionist and Symbolist movements in art.

Akira Toriyama is a renowned Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He was born on April 5, 1955, in Nagoya, Japan. Toriyama is best known for creating some of the most iconic and popular manga and anime series in the world. His most famous work is the manga and anime series "Dragon Ball," which has become a global phenomenon and a significant part of popular culture.

"Dragon Ball" began as a manga series in 1984 and was later adapted into several successful anime series, including "Dragon Ball," "Dragon Ball Z," "Dragon Ball GT," and "Dragon Ball Super." The story follows the...

Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor and installation artist. She was an early artist in the land art movement in the 1970s, and has created many large-scale metal sculptures around the world. Aycock's drawings and sculptures of architectural and mechanical fantasies combine logic, imagination, magical thinking and science.

Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, born April 5, 1955) is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his best-known work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration....

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after her retirement from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.

Thomas, who is often considered a member of the Washington Color School art movement but alternatively classified by some as an Expressionist, earned her teaching degree from University of the District of Columbia (known as Miner...

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor,[1] generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.[2] He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.

Alice Bailly, a Swiss painter and textile artist, was born in Geneva in 1872. She was a trailblazer in the field of modern art, known for her vibrant and eclectic works that combined various artistic styles and techniques.
Bailly began her artistic training at a young age, studying at the School of Decorative Arts in Geneva. She later traveled to Munich, Germany, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts. During her time in Munich, Bailly was exposed to the works of the German Expressionists and the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, which greatly influenced her artistic development....

Art in 5 - James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was an American painter who played a significant role in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He was born on November 29, 1933, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and grew up in Minneapolis. He was known for his monumental Pop Art paintings that often incorporated fragmented images from advertising and popular culture. He was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and spent much of his childhood moving around the Midwest due to his father's job as an airplane mechanic.
Rosenquist studied art at the University of Minnesota before moving to New...