Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Koons is artist known for making giant replicas of ordinary objects, such as balloon...

        

Robert Rauschenberg (1925?2008) Robert Rauschenberg was the defining force in contemporary art for nearly sixty years, creating a plethora of art icluding mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and printmaking and was one of the more more influential...

        

Richard Serra is a minimalist sculpturist and video artist most well known for his large-scale sculture assemblies of sheet metal. He was involved in the Process Art movement, which is concerned more with the process of creation than the final result. While in college, he...

        

Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a "rephotograph" of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first...

        

Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's...

        

Gerhard Richter a German visual artist was born in Dresden, Saxony, 1932 and grew up in Reichenau, Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces. Photo-paintings and the "blur"

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Jean Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 ? August 12, 1988) was the first African-American painter to become an international art celebrity. He began as a graffiti artist in the 1980s and evolved to become Neo-Expressionist artist. His works are still widely influential and...