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Romare Bearden

Lucian Freud

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden was an African American artist best known for his pioneering use of collage, combining cut photographs, painted papers, and fragments of found imagery into richly layered compositions that celebrated Black Southern life, jazz, mythology, and the urban experience. Working primarily from the 1960s onward in New York, he created tapestries, murals, and mosaics in addition to works on paper and canvas. He is widely regarded as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.

BornSeptember 2, 1911NationalityAmerican

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was a German-British painter widely regarded as one of the greatest figurative artists of the 20th century, known for his unsparing, psychologically intense portraits of friends, family, and himself in which he rendered flesh with a clinical yet deeply empathetic scrutiny. His thick, dragged brushwork and unflinching attention to skin, fat, and musculature gave his canvases an almost sculptural presence. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, he worked until his death at 88 and commanded some of the highest prices ever achieved for a living artist.

BornDecember 8, 1922NationalityBritish

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