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Belgium
Anna Boch (Belgium, 10/02/1848 - 25/02/1936) Period: Nineteenth and Twentieth century Movement: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism Medium: Painting Catharina van Hemessen (Belgium, 1528 - 1565) Period: Sixteenth century Movement: Renaissance Medium: Painting Clara Peeters (Belgium, 1594 - ?) Period: Seventeenth century Movement: Baroque Medium: Painting
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Barbados
Alberta Whittle (Barbados-Scotland, 1980 - ) Period: Contemporary Movement: Contemporary Medium: Installation, Collage, Performance
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Australia
Dorrit Black (Australia, 23/12/1891 - 13/09/1951) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Cubism Medium: Painting Ethel Carrick (Australia, 07/02/1872 - 17/06/1962) Period: Nineteenth and Twentieth century Movement: Post-Impressionism Medium: Painting Ola Cohn (Australia, 25/05/1892 - 23/12/1964) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Modernism Medium: Sculpture Grace Cossington Smith (Australia, 20/04/1892 - 20/12/1984) Period: Twentieth centu
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Argentina
Eileen Agar (Argentina-England, 01/12/1899 - 17/11/1991) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Surrealism Medium: Painting, Photography, Sculpture Leonor Fini (Argentina-Italy, 30/08/1907 - 18/01/1996) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Surrealism Medium: Painting
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Austria
Kiki Kogelnik (Austria, 22/01/1935 - 01/02/1997) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Abstraction, Modernism Medium: Painting Maria Lassnig (Austria, 08/09/1919 - 06/05/2014) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Abstraction, Expressionism Medium: Painting Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (Austria-England, 24/10/1906 - 10/06/1996) Period: Twentieth century Movement: Modernism, Cubism Medium: Painting
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Remedios Varo
(Spain, 16/12/1908 - 08/10/1963) Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River (1959) To enter the Surrealist world, and learn its new...
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Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun
(France, 16/04/1755 - 30/03/1842) While her foundational art knowledge came from her father, Vigée Lebrun was largely self-taught with her mastery of pastels allowing her to create soft textures and an almost airbrushed finish that rendered her sitters as appearing to be more attractive and desirable than in reality, making her the favourite portraitist of the French Enlightenment elite. Obsessed with art history, she challenged herself to not only match but exceed the talent
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Yayoi Kusama
(Japan, 22/03/1929 - ) The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe (2019) Growing up in post-World...
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Tarsila do Amaral
(Brazil, 01/09/1886 - 17/01/1973) Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in Latin American Modern Art, do Amaral was a central force in shaping Brazil’s cultural identity in the 20th century. Her vivid colours, bold compositions and unique fusion of European Modernist styles with Brazilian themes made her a pioneer of the country’s Modernist movement. Born in Capivari, a rural town in the state of São Paulo, into a wealthy coffee plantation family, her privile
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Sybil Craig
(Australia, 18/11/1901 - 09/09/1989) Self-Portrait (c.1934) A significant figure in twentieth-century Australian art, Craig’s career...
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Tamara de Lempicka
(Poland, 16/05/1898 - 18/03/1980) La Tunique Rose (1927) Born as Maria Gorska to a wealthy family and raised in early-twentieth-century...
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Sofonisba Anguissola
(Italy, 02/02/1532 - 16/11/1625) Born into a noble Cremonese family, Anguissola benefited from an education that extended well beyond the expectations for girls of her era. Her father, Amilcare Anguissola, believed passionately in the intellectual and artistic potential of his daughters and ensured that they received rigorous instruction in traditionally masculine fields of painting and literature as well as science, and actively promoted their artistic ambitions. In fact, he
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Rosalba Carriera
(Italy, 12/01/1673 - 15/04/1757) As the first woman to definitively instigate a new artistic style, Carriera is known as one of history's most successful and influential female artists. Her innovative use of pastels removed associations with the informal drawings and preparatory sketches for which they were traditionally used, popularising the medium to such an extent that it became an instrument of serious portraiture and establishing her as the first pioneer of Rococo. Much
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Rosa Bonheur
(France, 16/03/1822 - 25/05/1899) The Horse Fair (1852-55) Financially independent, living openly as a lesbian and open about her...
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Rachel Ruysch
(Netherlands, 03/06/1664 - 12/10/1750) Still-Life with Flower Bouquet and Plums (1704) Born in 1664 into a family steeped in scientific...
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Paula Rego
(Portugal, 26/01/1935 - 08/06/2022) The Policeman's Daughter (1987) Born in 1935, three years into Salazar’s fascist dictatorship, Rego...
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
(Germany, 08/02/1876 - 20/11/1907) Self-Portrait (Semi-Nude with Amber Necklace and Flowers II), (1906) One of the first women to work...
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Olga Sacharoff
(Georgia, 28/05/1899 - 01/03/1967) Self-Portrait with Cat (1924) Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, Sacharoff...
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Olga Boznańska
(Poland, 15/04/1865 - 26/10/1940) Self-Portrait with Folded Hands (1893) Born in Kraków in 1865, Boznańska was first taught to draw by her mother before receiving private lessons from artists including Kazimierz Pochwalski, Antoni Piotrowski and Wilhelm Dürr. Intending to further her education, she moved to Munich in 1886 but, unable to access the Academy, was forced to continue taking expensive private lessons. Nevertheless, she continued to hone her skills in portraits, sti
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Meret Oppenheim
(Germany-Switzerland, 06/10/1913 - 15/11/1985) Self-Portrait, Skull and Ornament (1964) Best known for her surrealist creations that...
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