Art
These goos are from the Art category, people famous for painting, sculpting, designing, and other making of art. Browse another way.
Aelita Andre
Another Picasso? This extremely talented young artist gained international recognition at age four after selling a collection of abstract paintings in shows from Italy to Hong Kong, including one for $24,000. Go »
Ai Weiwei
The Chinese government has been way, way more harsh than any mere art critic when it comes to this celebrated activist for democracy. Go »
Andres Serrano
Blood, sweat, and tears go into this artist's controversial works. Go »
Andrew Wyeth
Although Christina may be his most famous subject, his German neighbor was one of his most extensive. Go »
Andy Warhol
For fifteen minutes, he popped the difference between advertising and art. Go »
Anežka Kašpárková
This Czech nonagenarian transformed her Moravian village into an art gallery. Go »
Anne Geddes
Every baby is beautiful through the miraculous lens of this down-under photographer. Go »
Annie Leibovitz
Her celebrity portraits have graced magazine covers for decades, but her timely image of John & Yoko brought her the most fame. Go »
Ansel Adams
This conservationist would prefer to spend time in Yosemite to an AA meeting. Go »
Banksy
He has signed his many works in cities around the world, but nobody knows his real name, least of all the police. Go »
Banksy
urban artist, or talented criminal? Go »
Bill Henson
For a guy named like the creator of the Muppets, this guy sure didn't do Australian children any favors by photographing them a certain way, or himself with the police. Go »
Bob Flanagan
This performance artist derived so much happiness from being sick and in pain that he insisted that his own death be incorporated into his final filmed project. Go »
Bob Ross
There is such a thing as too much joy of painting. Go »
Bob Ross
He painted thousands of happy little trees, and touched untold more happy little hearts. Go »
Boris Vallejo
painter of fantasy and fantasies Go »
Carlo Pellegrini
This Italian painter was so good, he was awarded an Olympic gold medal. Go »
Chares of Lindos
One of ancient history's best-known sculptors didn't live to see his final creation, a Colossus of a statue, become finished. Go »
Charles R. Knight
Only to move three places on the board isn't very far, but some prehistoric animals have traveled much further, all the way into modern museums and the popular imagination, thanks to this painter who did his best work at night. Go »
Chris Peters
This artist came from deep within the artistic body of Los Angeles. Go »
Claude Monet
Founder of a revolutionary style, his paintings were referenced by a derisive term later adopted by his devotees. Go »
Daniel Chester French
In a story of centuries, this sculptor's first work was commissioned by a world-renowned poet and philosopher in the 19th century, but his most famous work was designed by him in the 20th century housed in a temple style of a 1st century civilization. Go »
David Alfaro Siqueiros
This Mexican painter might paint a picture of you and maybe paint a mural of you, but this painter might bury you next to a worker. Go »
David Hamilton
You could go naked for a week and still not attract the controversy of this renowned photographer. Go »
Dennis Hwang
This goo, whose oodles of work are viewed by milliions worldwide, can be considered the most famous unknown artist. Go »
Diane Arbus
This portraitist depicted mutants as a class all their own. Go »
E.J. Bellocq
He may have been the best Creole portraitist in Storyville, but he didn't get a picture of Kerry Gilhoulie's fist. Go »
Edvard Munch
inspired a Drew Barrymore horror movie Go »
Edward Hopper
His paintings of people in large indoor spaces like a New York eatery, a Chinese restaurant, and an all-night diner earned him as reputation as a chronicler of loneliness. Go »
Elizabeth Gibson
In NYC, one man's trash... Go »
Francisco Goya
This Spaniard lost his mind and its container. Go »
Frida Kahlo
This communist and self-portraitist limped her way into Mexican artistic history. Go »
George Barris
Holy windfall, Batman! One of his cars sold at auction for over four million dollars. Go »
Georges Seurat
It's hard to miss the point of the paintings by this short-lived Parisian, since they were nothing but. Go »
Georgia O'Keeffe
New Mexico's most colorful and abstract flower Go »
Geraldine Doyle
Don't doubt that you can do it: This real-life worker was painted into an iconic symbol of feminism and blue-collar pride. Go »
Gilbert Baker
Gay pride got very colorful after this artist designed a representative flag. Go »
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
This Italian portrait artist preferred subjects made out of produce and literature. Go »
Grant Wood
He brought a Gothic sensibility to his portraits of the Midwest. Go »
Gutzon Borglum
Ironically, prior to designing "Shrine of Democracy," this sculptor initiated the carving of confederate leaders on a different mountain. Go »
H.R. Giger
The darkest seed in this artist's mind came from an alien species. Go »
Henry Darger
A Chicago cleaning man who becomes a celebrated writer of slave uprisings? That's not inside the margins. Go »
Hieronymus Bosch
His obsession with hellscapes included painting himself into one. Go »
Hokusai
This classic Japanese artist inspired a wave of imitators including Monet and Van Gogh. Go »
Isabel Emrich
This Expressionistic artist likes to do underwater art. Go »
Jackson Pollock
Ed Harris gave a spotty performance. Funny, he didn't seem Polish. Go »
Jackson Pollock
This splatter painter had a lot of scented related art but searching for the body will be impossible. Go »
Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz
Skin is his canvas, milk is his paint, and momentum is his technique. Go »
Jason deCaires Taylor
His artwork may be drowning, but his reputation is flurishing. Go »
Jasper Johns
Patriotism, numerology, and kleptomania are all part of this South Carolinian artist's claim to fame. Go »
Jean-Michel Basquiat
This young artist expressed his heritage from the streets to the art galleries. Go »
Johannes Vermeer
The same two rooms showed up again and again in the works by this Dutch master, but he sometimes used a monochrome background as well, as with his famous painting of a pearl on a girl. Go »
Josef Aigner
This craftsman left post-war Germany to settle in Canada creating his outsized masterpieces, once monuments to illiteracy. Go »
Joseph Cornell
What is one man's garbage is another man's treasure, and, in this case, his artistic building box... I mean, blocks. Go »
Leonardo da Vinci
Being sketchy isn't all this inventor shares with the drowned cheesehead. Go »
Louis Wain
Painting pictures of large-eyed anthropomorphized felines possibly contributed to his confinement to mental institutions late in life. Go »
M.C. Escher
that stopped where they started. This Dutch artist created images Go »
Marcel Duchamp
When cross-dressing, this artist probably wouldn't have been able to use the public version of one of his most famous works. Go »
Margaret Keane
This artist had an eye-opening day in court when she revealed that her husband's famous paintings were in fact her own. Go »
Martín Chambi
This Indigenous photographer from Cusco made a name for himself by photographing both portraits of the living and the ruins of the dead. Go »
Maya Lin
When she dies, she can be memorialized by a simple list of her works carved into a wall in the ground. Go »
Megumi Igarashi
If this bad girl needs a getaway vehicle when the police try again to arrest her for obscenity, I know a (very) personal watercraft she could use. Go »
Michelangelo
As beloved by children as it was, a cartoon about anthropomorphic turtles who practice ninjitsu in sewers was not exactly timeless art on par with, say, the statue of David or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Go »
Mike Winkelmann
It's not every day that someone pays $69 million for a JPG file, but he's no ordinary artist. Go »
Millie Brown
This faux bulimic artist's paintings make me sick to my stomach. Hers, too. Go »
Mohamed Zakariya
On this 1400th anniversary of the first Eid al-Fitr, if you wanted to tell someone "Eid mubarak" through the U.S. mail, you might apply the work of this Virginia-based calligrapher. Go »
Mona Lisa
Leonardo knew why she was smiling. Moan-a if you know-a. Go »
Muriel Fahrion
Her little friends are some of the sweetest girls you'll ever meet, but this lady is a real pistol. Go »
Nam June Paik
I put up the goo for this flux-uating Korean artist a month late. Go »
Naomi Parker
What's a woozle? Ask this former factory worker, whose iconic pose became wartime inspiration and was credited to the wrong model until 2015, including a previous celebrity goo in 2014. (Be careful! Only guesses for the right name will count. You can do it!) Go »
Norman Rockwell
On Saturday evenings, America feasted on another riveting look at itself in the mirror. Go »
Pablo Picasso
Life was a cube for this modern master. Go »
Patrick Nagel
His artistic obsession with pure-white women drawn in a Japanese style dominated the 1980s, particularly after commissioned works by Duran Duran and Playboy. Go »
Paul Gauguin
This French master is remembered for his influential Primitivism and for his tumultuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh, which almost led to van Gogh cutting off his ear the night that he cut off his own. Go »
Peter Max
This German-born artist exerted maximum influence over the movement called pop art. Go »
Peter Minshall
This bird costume is beautiful, but what's that thing and its non-stop flailing? Go »
Pez
Barcelona is a happier place thanks to him. Go »
Piotr Młodożeniec
It turned out that a set decoration by U2 and a best-selling bumper sticker could not co-exist peacefully with the original artwork by this Polish graphic designer. Go »
Rembrandt van Rijn
This Dutch artist will be there for you if you want to learn how to be an outstanding painter. Go »
René Magritte
This artist walked into a bar and when the bartender asked him what he'd like, he responded, "Ce n'est pas un bar." Go »
Renée Cox
Your mother wouldn't recognize this controversy-courting photographer if she sat down to one final dinner with her. Go »
Robert G. Heft
When does an art project grade of B- get changed to an A? When it's endorsed and adopted by the federal government. Go »
Robert Mapplethorpe
His subjects, including naked children, naked adults with objects anally inserted, and flowers, did not have to go naked for a week to pose for his controversial shots. Go »
Salvador Dalí
He didn't transcend space and time, but his paintings did. Go »
Salvador Dalí
This Spanish master's reality-melting masterpieces were as gravity-defying as his mustache. Go »
Sebastião Salgado
Left money and the gun to pursue more altruistic endeavors. Workers, earth and children are but a few. Go »
Sebastão Salgado
This Brazilian gave up the study of money to document economic inequality, but he couldn't give up gold. Go »
Sharbat Gula
Taking asylum in Italy last year is only the latest turn of events for this former (and formerly unknown) cover girl. Go »
Shepard Fairey
This artist lived a fairy tale until he was crushed by some bad news. Go »
Spencer Tunick
His photographs wouldn't be so famous if each of his subjects showed up wearing a coat or a jacket or something. Go »
Steve Diet Goedde
Is this what Ansel Adams really had in mind when he thought about S&M? Go »
Thomas Hart Benton
This painter put a lot of heart into his paintings since the artwork was painted with a bunch of fluids. Go »
Thomas Kinkade
serious art critics take his work too lightly Go »
Tibor Kalman
This designer for Benetton and Barnes & Noble knows what it is to be depraved and hopeful at the same time. Go »
Tony Peters
Is it possible to paint "still life" in a city as bustling as Los Angeles? Go »
Vincent Castiglia
This artist literally puts himself into his work for heavy metal bands like Slayer and Triptykon. Go »
Vincent van Gogh
This painter had an eye for a beautiful nighttime sky, but not an ear. Go »
W.W. Denslow
This children's book illustrator, best remembered for drawings of frightened lions and foolish scarecrows, earned enough money to buy an island and declare himself a king, even though he shared his name with a Scottish warrior who famously opposed a king. Go »
William Thomas Horton
As far as we know, he's only known for black and white illustrations, and not for committing violent crimes while on furlough. Go »
Winslow Homer
This largely self-taught painter is most well-known for his landscapes. His Civil War illustrations have enormous historical significance. Go »
